Contemporary Issues Book Club

In February, we will be discussing One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad. Leading this discussion will be Max Wellbrock-Talley.
📚: https://redfernbooksellers.com/book/9780593804148
On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: "One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse. This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries-America, the UK, France and Germany. This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.

You may also like the following events from Red Fern Booksellers:

• This Saturday, 10th January, 02:00 pm, Contemporary Issues Book Club in Salina
• This Saturday, 10th January, 04:00 pm, Author Event with Jim Norton in Salina
• Next Thursday, 15th January, 06:00 pm, Salina Symphony's Book Club in Salina