Events & Reunions

Sponsored by:

Tufts Alumni San Francisco

Location:
Samovar Tea Lounge
498 Sanchez Street, San Francisco
Look for us in Samovar's back room. | See Map

When: Sunday, March 20, 2011, 10:30 am (iCal)

Description

The San Francisco Tufts Alliance invites you to join our book club. Our next book is Kindred by Octavia E. Butler, who is the recipient of a MacArthur Award and a Nebula Award, and twice won the Hugo Award. In her celebrated novel Kindred, "Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back again and again for Rufus, yet each time the stay grows longer and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has even begun."

The Los Angeles Herald Examiner wrote, "Kindred is a shattering work of art with much to say about love, hate, slavery and racial dilemmas, then and now."

Whether you've already read this captivating book or it's new to you, we would love for you to join our conversation. Please register for this event and start reading! Also, you can share your interest in this book club and ideas for future reads with Bobbie at bobbie.peyton@gmail.com.

RSVP

Please email SFTA steering committee member Bobbie Peyton, G07, at bobbie.peyton@gmail.com and include your name, school/class year, and names of any guests. You can also register on our Facebook group.

Directions:
Muni: It’s one block west of the J-Church stop on 18th Street.
BART: Get off at 16th Street/Mission Station in San Francisco. Walk west on 16th for five blocks, then south on Sanchez for two blocks.
Driving: There’s on-street parking throughout the Mission and Castro…if you can find an open space.

Cost

Free to attend.
Refreshments will be available for purchase.

Contact

Please email SFTA steering committee member Bobbie Peyton, G07, at bobbie.peyton@gmail.com with any questions.

The San Francisco Tufts Alliance is a chapter of the Tufts University Alumni Association, providing a "home away from home" for our undergraduate and graduate alumni and their families. Through social activities, intellectual events, and active global citizenship, we aim to create a connection with our Bay Area community while furthering the Tufts mission and having fun!