November, 30 2023 | 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm

325 E Walnut Springfield, Missouri 65806
https://www.bookmarxbookshop.com/

FREE

Meet with your neighbors to read books that have recently been in the news. At the Banned Book Club, you’ll discuss the book, reasons for it being banned or challenged and ideas surrounding intellectual freedom. Teens age 15 and older are welcome to attend with a parent or guardian. Thr group meets at BookMarx Book Store.

November’s book is Out of Darkness by Ashley Hope Perez. Ashley Hope Pérez takes the facts of the 1937 New London school explosion the worst school disaster in American history as a backdrop for a riveting novel about segregation, love, family, and the forces that destroy people.

Description:

“This is East Texas, and there’s lines. Lines you cross, lines you don’t cross. That clear?”

New London, Texas. 1937. Naomi Vargas and Wash Fuller know about the lines in East Texas as well as anyone. They know the signs that mark them. They know the people who enforce them. But sometimes the attraction between two people is so powerful it breaks through even the most entrenched color lines. And the consequences can be explosive.