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  • November Adult Book Club: The Sun of Mr. Suleman by Eric Jerome Dickey
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    Join us for our monthly book club meeting!
    This month, we will be reading Erick Jerome Dickey's last novel, The Son of Mr. Suleman. 
    MEETING Deets
    When: November 30 at 7:00 PM
    Where: Kindred Stories Reading Garden 
    How: RSVP to reserve your spot or RSVP with book to reserve you spot and support our store. 
    About the Book
    It’s the summer of 2019, and Professor Pi Suleman is a Black man from Memphis with a lot to endure—not only as a Black man in Trump’s America but in his hard-earned career as an adjunct professor. Pi is constantly forced to bite his tongue in the face of one of his tenured colleague’s prejudices and microaggressions. At the same time, he’s being blackmailed by a powerful professor who threatens to claim he has assaulted her, when in fact the truth is just the opposite, trapping him in a he-said-she-said with a white woman that, in this society, Pi knows he will never win.
     
    When he meets Gemma Buckingham, a sophisticated entrepreneur who has just moved to Memphis from London to escape a deep heartbreak, things begin to look up. Though Gemma and Pi hail from separate cultures, their differences fuel a fiery and passionate connection that just may consume them both.
     
    But Pi’s whirlwind romance is interrupted when his absentee father, a celebrated writer, passes away and Pi is called to Los Angeles to both collect his inheritance and learn about the man who never acknowledged him. With the complicated legacy of his famous father to make sense of, Gemma’s visa expiration date looming, and the threats of his colleague becoming increasingly intense, Pi must figure out who he is and what kind of man he will become in his father’s shadow.
     
    In The Son of Mr. Suleman, Eric Jerome Dickey takes readers on a powerful journey exploring racism, colorism, life as a mixed-race person, sexual assault, microaggressions, truth and lies, cultural differences, politics, family legacies, perceptions, the impact of enslavement and Jim Crow, code-switching, the power of death, and the weight of love. It is an extraordinary story, page-turning and intense, and a book only Dickey could write
  • APRIL 2025: Romance Book Club - April 17 @ 7PM
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    We're meeting to discuss Behind The Scenes by Christina C. Jones!

    BOOK CLUB MEETING DEETS

    When: Thursday, April 17 @ 7PM CST

    Where: Kindred Stories (2304 Stuart Street, HTX, 77004

    How: RSVP ONLY to let us know you plan to attend and RSVP WITH BOOK to purchase your book and support Romance Book Club!

    ABOUT BEHIND THE SCENES

    Perfect.

    Privileged.

    Strong.

    Spoiled.

    Uptight.

    Useless.

    If there's any one thing Pierre and Logan have in common, it's their ability to invite snap judgements based on shallow views of who they are.

    Logan is the privileged only daughter of a respected family whose legacy runs long and deep.

    Pierre is the moody, orphaned son of big screen royalty who couldn't possibly live up to the prestige of his pedigree.

    Or maybe not.

    Perhaps they're just two people trying to navigate the pressures of a world hellbent on telling them what they should be, and eschewing the limits of other people's expectations.

    Maybe what they need most is somebody who can see beyond the shallow first impressions - just one person they can allow to see behind the scenes of who they are.

    Maybe they have more in common than it seems.

     

  • NOVEMBER 2025: NO NAME BOOK CLUB - November 30 @ 1 PM CST
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    No Name is a Black-owned worker cooperative connecting community members both inside and outside carceral facilities with radical books. Each month, No Name uplifts two books written by Black, indigenous, and other people of color. No Name believes building community through political education is crucial for our liberation and should be accessible to everyone—which is why all programming is free. 

    MEETING DEETS

    When: Sunday, November 30 @ 1 PM

    Where: Kindred Stories (2310 Elgin St, Houston, TX 77004)

    How: RSVP to let us know you're coming! 

    ABOUT HOMEGOING

    Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into different villages in eighteenth-century Ghana.

    Effia is married off to an Englishman and will live in comfort in the palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising children who will be sent abroad to be educated before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the empire. Esi, imprisoned beneath Effia in the Castle’s women’s dungeon and then shipped off on a boat bound for America, will be sold into slavery.

    Stretching from the wars of Ghana to slavery and the Civil War in America, from the coal mines in the American South to the Great Migration to twentieth-century Harlem, Yaa Gyasi’s novel moves through histories and geographies and captures—with outstanding economy and force—the troubled spirit of our own nation. She has written a modern masterpiece.

  • Kindred Stories Friendsgiving Dinner - INVITE ONLY
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    Join us for a special dinner that's all about thanking you!  We’re so grateful for your continued support and the beautiful community we’ve built together.

    Please join us for a Friendsgiving Dinner as a token of our appreciation.

    EVENT DEETS:

    When: Sunday, November 16 @ 7 - 9 PM

    Where: Kindred Stories - 2310 Elgin St. Houston, tX 77004

    How: RSVP to let us know you are coming. 

  • Brunch & Browse for Educators, Librarians & School Leaders - August 3 @ 9:30 AM
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    EVENT DEETS

    When: Saturday, August 3, 2024 

    Where: Kindred Stories (2304 Stuart Street, HTX, 77004)

    How: RSVP for free with your school email

    WHAT TO EXPECT:

    With the beginning of the school year on the horizon, we wanted to take a moment to show our love and appreciation for the work of educators. We'll be serving light bites and drink (including mimosas). There will be a short meditation and intention setting workshop. We'll also be sharing the services that we offer to schools and school districts.

    We hope you join us!

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