Diversity Day Book Group: Discuss Homeland Elegies (In-Person)

In celebration of National Diversity Awareness Month, the Howard County Office of Human Rights & Equity is partnering with the Howard County Library System to host a book discussion series. The goal of this discussion series is to explore and facilitate multiple conversations around race, belonging, immigration, dispossession, and the lived experience of the socially invisible through narrative. 

Join us at HCLS Central Branch as we discuss Ayad Ahktar’s Homeland Elegies.

Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar

A deeply personal work about identity and belonging in a nation coming apart at the seams, Homeland Elegies blends fact and fiction to tell an epic story of longing and dispossession in the world that 9/11 made. Part family drama, part social essay, part picaresque novel, at its heart it is the story of a father, a son, and the country they both call home. 

Join us at HCLS Central Branch as we discuss Ayad Ahktar’s Homeland Elegies. 

Registered customers should place a hold request on the title using their library card in order to receive a copy to read before the discussion. Availability of books is not guaranteed. Place Hold.

This series is comprised of three simultaneous events. Pick the discussion you wish to attend. There is separate registration for each discussion.

October 26: 6:30 - 7:45 pm - Discuss Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar @ HCLS, Central Branch IN-PERSON Register

October 26: 6:30 - 7:45 pm - Discuss On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong @ HCLS, Miller Branch IN-PERSON Register

October 26: 6:30 - 7:45 pm - Discuss movie Just Mercy based on the book by Bryan Stevenson ONLINE Register

This event is part of the Brave Voices Brave Choices series.