
- By Tony McCloud
- Posted Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Pick up a good book and join us with the Alliance Book Club
The Alliance Book Club is a systemwide book club dedicated to reading and discussing books by and/or about members of the LGBTQIA+ community. The book club will meet on the fourth Saturday of each month at 11 a.m. at NorthStar LGBTQ+ Community Center. All are welcome.
For more information and to join the book club, please contact Tony McCloud (mcclouad@forsyth.cc).
March
- Meeting: Saturday, March 22 at 11 a.m.
Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in a fractured America in this sparkling novel of love, friendship and chosen family, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl.
Bernie is a talented young photographer who has quit taking photographs in favor of drinking and drifting around Philadelphia. Leah is ambitious yet flailing grad student and journalist who must know the answer to every question.
When Bernie replies to Leah's ad for a new housemate, they tentatively begin the kind of uncategorizable, queer relationship that can only flourish between two people who deeply understand each others' dreams and dissatisfactions.
When Bernie's college professor dies in rural Pennsylvania and leaves her a complicated inheritance, Leah volunteers to accompany Bernie, turning the jaunt into a road trip with an ambitious mission: to document 2018 America in words and photographs.
What ensues is a three-week journey through the state of Pennsylvania in which Bernie and Leah have eye-opening conversations with a wide-range of Americans, and develop a piercing intimacy that cracks each of them wide open.

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