Extraordinary, Ordinary People: A Memoir of Family by Condoleezza Rice.
Our April selection focuses on women and leadership with this memoir of a young woman was encouraged at every step of her life to overcome racism, sexism, and her own personal doubts. Her roots are deep in the South, with a family that pridefully skirted racism. Her mother was a cultured teacher who taught her piano. Her father was a Presbyterian minister and later a college administrator who, despite his Republican politics, strongly admired black radicals and developed a friendship with Stokely Carmichael. Rice presents a frank, poignant, and loving portrait of a family that maintained its closeness through cancer, death, career ups and downs, and turbulent changes in American society. (Excerpted from Booklist review)
The book group is open to all interested members and their guests. You will find complete directions to the home of this month's hostess at the bottom of your registration confirmation email.
Questions? Contact Laurie Sharp at lsharp1000@msn.com.
