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December 2, 2017 and 
 January 9, 2017
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Pearl McHaney
Connecting Lines: Building Empathy Through Literature
Wednesday, January 11, 2017
Decatur Library Auditorium
7:15 p.m.
Happy New Year to you all! We hope that your Holiday Season was merry and bright; with time well spent with famil y and friends, and a good book,or two! We are very excited to kick-off our 2017 programming with a new reading series developed by our good friend, Professor Pearl McHaney. We are so pleased to have these timely and necessary discussions throughout the winter months, and we encourage you to come to as many as you can, and bring a friend or two! If you would like a preview of this series, click on the link provided to here Pearl's interview with Lois Reitzes on City Cafe.

"Why Literature Matters and How Reading Leads to Empathy"
A Reading and Lecture Series presented by Dr. Pearl A. McHaney,  Kenneth M. England Professor of Southern Literature at Georgia State University.

In light of the calls for justice in the US, and hearing our leaders from many areas say that one action that should be taken is to consider others, to think about being in their shoes, their situations, to understand the daily fear people of color experience, Pearl McHaney will present the following series for the Georgia Center for the Book for Spring 2017. Pearl believes that the way to the future is not in how we are different but how we are the same and that literature provides the thinking and actions that ar e being called for. The texts she will present include young adult, adult, and crossover novels. The lectures will be suitable for general audience, young people, parents, and teachers. Attendees could read the books or not. Pearl will be bringing the texts to light in how the authors and their characters see other worlds, recognize and work with difference, make decisions, learn empathy. 

All lectures will take place on Wednesday evenings, 7:15 pm. Free and open to the public. 

January 11: Introduction: Why Literature Matters and How It Develops Empathy

February 1: African American Young Men in Jails and Wars: Walter Dean Myers' Monster, Fallen Angels, Sunrise over Fallujah

March 1: Gangs, Bullies, and Difference: The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton), Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian (S. Alexie), Wonder (R. J. Palacio)

March 29: Choices and Their Consequences: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (M. Twain) and The Giver (L. Lowry)

April 19: Individuals and Communities: Toni Morrison's A Mercy and Beloved


See you at the Library!
Joe Davich
Executive Director, Georgia Center for the Book

Zachary Steele
Program Assistant, Georgia Center for the Book
Georgia Center for the Book at the  DeKalb County Public Library
215 Sycamore Street
Decatur, Georgia 30030
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