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Between the Lines Book Club: American Books About Class

between the lines book club logoThis month we are reading White Trash by Nancy Isenberg. Our monthly meeting will be at Arden Dimick, at 10:30 AM, on Saturday Feburary 24, 2018.

One of the books Isenberg mentions is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, which combines conversations about race with conversations about class. Here are some other books about class in America:

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Hillbilly Elegy, by J.D. Vance

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee

Deer Hunting With Jesus, by Joe Bageant

Poor White, Sherwood Anderson

 

 

 

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