The PsychoHairapy Book Club
Our book club is a reading group, consisting of a number of people who read and talk about books based on the topics of HAIR, HEALTH, and HERITAGE. We meet on Zoom on the last Monday of the month at 8pm est.
January 2025: The Message
Join us to discuss Ta’Nehisi Coates’ most recent book.
In the first of the book’s three intertwining essays, Coates, on his first trip to Africa, finds himself in two places at once: in Dakar, a modern city in Senegal, and in a mythic kingdom in his mind. Then he takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on his own book’s banning, but also explores the larger backlash to the nation’s recent reckoning with history and the deeply rooted American mythology so visible in that city—a capital of the Confederacy with statues of segregationists looming over its public squares. Finally, in the book’s longest section, Coates travels to Palestine, where he sees with devastating clarity how easily we are misled by nationalist narratives, and the tragedy that lies in the clash between the stories we tell and the reality of life on the ground.
Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world—and our own souls—and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.
Join us virtually for this book discussion on Monday, January 27th, 2025 at 8pm est.