This week for our Social Justice Club we’re reading and discussing the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This a first-person narrative novel from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as “Junior”, a 14-year-old promising cartoonist.  The book is about Junior’s life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot.

If you’d like to join, just register once to receive the Zoom link, and we’ll send it automatically thereafter. You’re welcome to purchase the book yourself but it is not required since the host will read out loud in the group.

In all the following Social Justice Club meetings we’ll continue the book until the end.

This week for our Social Justice Club we’re reading and discussing the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This a first-person narrative novel from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as “Junior”, a 14-year-old promising cartoonist.  The book is about Junior’s life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot.

If you’d like to join, just register once to receive the Zoom link, and we’ll send it automatically thereafter. You’re welcome to purchase the book yourself but it is not required since the host will read out loud in the group.

In all the following Social Justice Club meetings we’ll continue the book until the end.

This week for our Social Justice Club we’re reading and discussing the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This a first-person narrative novel from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as “Junior”, a 14-year-old promising cartoonist.  The book is about Junior’s life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot.

If you’d like to join, just register once to receive the Zoom link, and we’ll send it automatically thereafter. You’re welcome to purchase the book yourself but it is not required since the host will read out loud in the group.

In all the following Social Justice Club meetings we’ll continue the book until the end.

This week for our Social Justice Club we’re beginning to read and discuss the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This a first-person narrative novel from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as “Junior”, a 14-year-old promising cartoonist.  The book is about Junior’s life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot.

If you’d like to join, just register once to receive the Zoom link, and we’ll send it automatically thereafter. You’re welcome to purchase the book yourself but it is not required since the host will read out loud in the group.

In all the following Social Justice Club meetings we’ll continue the book until the end.

This week for our Social Justice Club we’re beginning to read and discuss the book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie. This a first-person narrative novel from the perspective of a Native American teenager, Arnold Spirit Jr., also known as “Junior”, a 14-year-old promising cartoonist.  The book is about Junior’s life on the Spokane Indian Reservation and his decision to go to a nearly all-white public high school away from the reservation. The graphic novel includes 65 comic illustrations that help further the plot.

If you’d like to join, just register once to receive the Zoom link, and we’ll send it automatically thereafter. You’re welcome to purchase the book yourself but it is not required since the host will read out loud in the group.

In all the following Social Justice Club meetings we’ll continue the book until the end.

This week for our Social Justice Club, we’re discussing the movie Invictus. The story is based on the 2008 John Carlin book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation about the events in South Africa before and during the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

All are welcome, and you don’t need to have attended previous meetings to join. We just ask that you watch the movie beforehand.

Please RSVP to receive the Zoom link.

Join OSG and APAH at Gilliam Place for an afternoon of reading with the neighbors. This time we’ll be joined by the Arlington Public Library who will be handing out books from their book bus!

We will meet in the lobby of Gilliam Place. Contact donnab@ourstompingground.org for any questions.

Please RSVP below.

Join OSG and APAH at Queens Court for an afternoon of reading with the neighbors.

We will meet in the lobby of Queens Court. Contact Donna Budway at donnab@ourstompingground.org for any questions.

*Note: things change. Sign-up is mandatory since we will communicate changes of plans via email.

We’re reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Join our book club to listen to our volunteer Finn Jensen read to the group.

The OSG Book Club meets every Tuesday at 7 PM. All are welcome, but please RSVP to receive the Zoom link*.  Note: it’s not mandatory to purchase the book since it will be read out loud in the group.

*Once you’ve signed up once, no need to sign up every week. We’ll automatically send you the zoom link weekly with a reminder.

About the book:

A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.

It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.

The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.

We’re reading The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen. Join our book club to listen to our volunteer Finn Jensen read to the group.

The OSG Book Club meets every Tuesday at 7 PM. All are welcome, but please RSVP to receive the Zoom link*.  Note: it’s not mandatory to purchase the book since it will be read out loud in the group.

*Once you’ve signed up once, no need to sign up every week. We’ll automatically send you the zoom link weekly with a reminder.

About the book:

A profound, startling, and beautifully crafted debut novel, The Sympathizer is the story of a man of two minds, someone whose political beliefs clash with his individual loyalties.

It is April 1975, and Saigon is in chaos. At his villa, a general of the South Vietnamese army is drinking whiskey and, with the help of his trusted captain, drawing up a list of those who will be given passage aboard the last flights out of the country. The general and his compatriots start a new life in Los Angeles, unaware that one among their number, the captain, is secretly observing and reporting on the group to a higher-up in the Viet Cong.

The Sympathizer is the story of this captain: a man brought up by an absent French father and a poor Vietnamese mother, a man who went to university in America, but returned to Vietnam to fight for the Communist cause. A gripping spy novel, an astute exploration of extreme politics, and a moving love story, The Sympathizer explores a life between two worlds and examines the legacy of the Vietnam War in literature, film, and the wars we fight today.