Michelle, called Mikey by her beloved grandfather, Charlie LeBeau, is the first person of color ever to live in Deerhorn until the fall of 1974, when an African-American couple, a nurse and a substitute teacher, arrive to work in the expanding local hospital and to teach at Michelle’s school.

It’s 1974 in Deerhorn,Wisconsin, where Tokyo-raised nine-year-old Michelle LeBeau has been sent to live with her father’s parents while her father, a Deerhorn native, pursues her runaway mother, a Japanese exchange student whom he met in college. It is also an aching, lonely, sure-handed portrait of small-town lesbian girlhood. Wingshooters serves as a stark corrective to lazy, cozy assumptions that racism doesn’t exist in the North the way it does in the South, or that lynching ended with the Civil Rights Movement. Named one of “Ten Titles to Pick Up Now” by O: The Oprah Magazine, Nina Revoyr’s new Lambda nominated novel is at once a breathtakingly beautiful hymn to the American outdoors-and to the bond between grandfather and granddaughter-and at the same time a chilling snapshot of race in this country. I always try to create a sense of urgency ideally the reader will be pulled along, will want to know what happens next.” JOIN BOOK CLUB – For those interested in participating, send inquiry here.Ma“…I do believe in the importance of story, of narrative. MEET THE AUTHOR – We are in the process of contacting the author to see if a book conversation can be scheduled.

If the group would like to have an online video chat, that can be arranged too. You can read the chat, add your own comments and reflections. Once you are in the JSei Community, find the Book Club Channel on the left column. If it’s your first time, you will need to create an account. To connect to DISCORD, click on the CONNECT button in the DISCORD box below. You’re free to respond to my comments and also submit your own observations, opinions, and questions in the Comment area of the Post.ĬHAT – For an online chat with fellow book club participants, connect to DISCORD. Click on READ MORE for the full post and comment section. REFLECTING – An occasional posting will be added during the month as a check in.

As you’re reading, you can comment online as it strikes you with fellow book club members on Discord or the secure Book Club webpage. READING – For this book, we will have you read at your own pace and leisure through the month of October. You can order Southland online at the discounted price at $14.75 and either pick up at the store, arrange for shipping or designate J-Sei for delivery/pick-up in the comments. Join the J-Sei Virtual Book Club and connect with others as we delve into Southland, a timely and standout literary crime novel by Nina Revoyr written in 2003.īuy the Book – We have arranged with Eastwind Books to handle book sales. ENGAGING IN BOOK CLUB Join the Club, Buy the Book

The Age of Dreaming by Nina Revoyr