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The Metropolitan Library is proud to partner with Noname Book Club to host their monthly book talks!

Noname is an online/IRL community dedicated to uplifting POC voices. We do this by highlighting two books each month written by authors of color. In addition to building community with folks across the country, we also send our monthly book picks to incarcerated comrades through our Prison Program.

February's book selection is A Map to the Door of No Return by Dionne Brand

A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive, and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies, and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history -- the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogeneous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.