One City One Book 2024

Bite Size Book Club: Chanel Miller, Know My Name

Sunday, 3/7/2021
3:00 - 4:00
Virtual Library

United States

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At this Bite Sized Book Club, we meet and discuss SFPL’s 16th One City One Book selection, Chanel Miller’s Know My Name over three meetings on the first Sunday of the month leading up to her virtual library appearance on March 16, 2021. 

Try to have read through the Victim Impact Statement for this meeting.

Suggested Chapters For Book Club Meets

Jan. 3 - Chapter 1–5 and the introduction (if you want)

Feb. 7 - Chapter 6–12

March 7 - Chapter 13–Victim Impact Statement

Chanel Miller is a writer and artist who received her BA in Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her critically acclaimed memoir Know My Name was a New York Times bestseller, a New York Times Book Review Notable Book and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner, as well as a best book of 2019 in Time, NPR and the Washington Post, among others. She is a 2019 Time Next 100 honoree and a 2016 Glamour Woman of the Year honoree under her pseudonym, “Emily Doe.”

 

Book Clubs

Read, discuss ideas and connect through the many book clubs hosted by SFPL.

One City One Book

Events and workshops curated around SFPL’s One City One Book selection. One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is a citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time. For more information, see sfpl.org/onecityonebook.

This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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This program will be conducted in English unless otherwise noted.

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