Our next Book Group meeting will be on Wednesday, February 25 from 7-9pm. Our meetings are held via Zoom.

Please join us here:
https://zoom.us/j/144736833

Selection:
Go Tell It on the Mountain, by James Baldwin

Summary:
This book is often banned and was chosen because February is Black History Month.

Baldwin’s classic novel opened new possibilities in the American language and in the way Americans understand themselves. With lyrical precision, psychological directness, resonating symbolic power, and a rage that is at once unrelenting and compassionate, Baldwin tells the story of the stepson of the minister of a storefront Pentecostal church in Harlem one Saturday in March of 1935. Originally published in 1953, Baldwin said of his first novel, “Mountain is the book I had to write if I was ever going to write anything else.”

The UUCG Book Group chooses books across various genres, with an eye toward what will provide substantial topics for discussion. When possible, we try to choose titles that are available at the Gwinnett County Public Library so that everyone can have access to the book. We have found that some of our favorite books have been those that have wide appeal.

All are welcome to join the discussion!

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Upcoming Selections:

March 2026: Separation of Church and Hate, by John Fugelsang

April 2026: Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell

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