Griot African-American Book Discussion

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

We read books by African-American authors and meet monthly for discussion in person and virtually via Zoom. September's selection: Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

Meeting location change beginning in July 2025! Due to Eola Road Branch renovations, the Griot Book Discussion will meet in person at the Santori Library, 3rd floor Quiet Reading Room until further notice.

Attend in person at Santori Library or virtually via Zoom. Print copies of the book are available for checkout at the Santori Library, 3rd floor, or Eola Road Branch Adult Reference Desk, 2nd floor. Email group facilitator Becky Clark at rclark@aurorapubliclibrary.org for more information.

Join us virtually here.

Book description:

Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson

The dangerous magic of?The Night Circus?meets the powerful historical exploration of?The Underground Railroad?in Alaya Dawn Johnson's timely and unsettling novel, set against the darkly glamorous backdrop of New York City, where an assassin falls in love and tries to change her fate at the dawn of World War II. Amid the whir of city life, a young woman from Harlem is drawn into the glittering underworld of Manhattan, where she’s hired to use her knives to strike fear among its most dangerous denizens. Ten years later, Phyllis LeBlanc has given up everything?not just her own past, and Dev, the man she loved, but even her own dreams. Still, the ghosts from her past are always by her side?and history has appeared on her doorstep to threaten the people she keeps in her heart. And so Phyllis will have to make a harrowing choice, before it’s too late?is there ever enough blood in the world to wash clean generations of injustice? (publisher description)

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