BOOKCLUB DETAILS:
The group will meet once at the end of the month to discuss A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Once registered you will receive an email confirmation with access to register for the bookclub call. In order to get access you must be approved and registered.
The bookclub usually meets for 1.5 hours and virtually chat and snack as we discuss the good, the bad, and the ugly. The group is super casual — so although finishing the book (to avoid spoilers) is highly encouraged you are not required to have book finished before our meeting. Life be lifing sometimes so we get it.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Author: Lorraine Hansberry
"Never before, in the entire history of the American theater, has so much of the truth of Black people's lives been seen on the stage," observed James Baldwin shortly before A Raisin in the Sun opened on Broadway in 1959.
This edition presents the fully restored, uncut version of Hansberry's landmark work with an introduction by Robert Nemiroff.
Lorraine Hansberry's award-winning drama about the hopes and aspirations of a struggling, working-class family living on the South Side of Chicago connected profoundly with the psyche of Black America--and changed American theater forever. The play's title comes from a line in Langston Hughes's poem "Harlem," which warns that a dream deferred might "dry up/like a raisin in the sun."
"The events of every passing year add resonance to A Raisin in the Sun," said The New York Times. "It is as if history is conspiring to make the play a classic."
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