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Ma'Sheka’s Book Club
Looking for an engaging and inclusive space to discuss powerful books and connect with mindful readers? Ma’Sheka’s Book Club is a welcoming community for book lovers who enjoy meaningful conversations and personal growth.
We meet monthly to explore both fiction and non-fiction titles that inspire, challenge, and uplift. Whether you're into wellness, self-development, or captivating storytelling, there’s a seat for you at our table.
Ma’Sheka’s Book Club is a welcoming community for readers who enjoy meaningful conversations around fiction and non-fiction books, with monthly virtual and in-person meetups in Maryland.
September Book Reading:
Better Than I Know Myself by Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant
Purchase from Amazon / Audible / Thrift Books / Barnes and Noble
Summary:
The beloved #1 Essence best-selling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made now deliver a novel in which you'll meet their most unforgettable characters yet. Carmen, Jewel, and Regina could not be more different. When they meet as freshmen at Columbia University, they're pretty confident that a friendship among them isn't in the cards.
Jewel is Hollywood royalty; as the teenage star of the TV show Daddy's Girl, her face is instantly recognizable all across America. Now, though, she wants two things: to get a serious education and to leave her controlling stage-mother behind. Regina is the definitive upper-middle-class African-American girl. Her picture-perfect parents are what she calls "black Ward and June Cleavers", and their goals for her are like a stranglehold. No one can see, though, how far Regina's rebellious side will take her, or how treacherous it will become. Carmen is just trying to get by. A child of the projects whose father is dead and whose mother has vanished, Carmen has been raised by her abusive brother. Columbia is the way for her to get a better life, if she can hold down two jobs and keep her grade point average up.
