The Stacks Book Club - September 2024

Jazz by Toni Morrison

The Stacks Book Club selection for September is Jazz by Toni Morrison. The Pulitzer- and Nobel Prize-winning author released the novel in 1992; it’s set during the peak of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926 but flashes back to the 19th-century South. The story follows migrant couple Joe and Violet Trace, who are caught up in the murder of a young woman (Jealous Joe’s affair partner). They get obsessive, and things get messy, to say the least; all the new city chaos only adds to their stress. Jazz is Morrison’s sixth novel and the middle title of her Dantesque trilogy, between Beloved and Paradise.

If you want to read with us this month, here are some key dates to The Stacks Book Club read of Jazz.

• September 4th -- The Stacks Episode announcing our guest for the Jazz episode

• September 25th -- The Stacks Book Club Episode of Jazz

• October 1st at 5pm PT -- The Stacks Virtual Book Club meetup to discuss the book. To participate you will need to join The Stacks Pack on Patreon. There, you’ll have inside access to the show, access to the Discord community, and more.

LA’s Black-owned indie bookstore Reparations Club offers you 10% off your copy of Jazz using the code STACKS10 at checkout!

You can support The Stacks by purchasing this month's pick through my Bookshop.org or Amazon page as well.

I can't believe this will be our seventh Toni Morrison title we are reading together. Be sure to join in, Morrison Month is always the best around these parts.

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