justice unbound book club
“Reading is an exercise in empathy; an exercise in walking in someone else’s shoes for a while.”
Malorie Blackman
About Justice Unbound
All are welcome to join Legal Aid Society’s book club, Justice Unbound. We believe that stories have the power to create empathy and connect communities. Our book club aims to explore issues related to civil legal justice, better understand the challenges facing low-income communities, and inspire creative solutions to complicated and systemic issues.
Benefits of Joining
20% discount on all book club books at Carmichaels Bookstore
Invitation to our Books and Breakfeast series (our book discussion events)
Connection with a community of individuals passionate about civil legal justice
Books and Breakfast
Our first Justice Unbound: Books and Breakfast event will be held on Thursday, October 24th, from 8:30 to 10 a.m. at the Louisville Bar Association's office (600 W Main St #110, Louisville, KY 40202).
Guest moderator Judge McKay Chauvin will lead our discussion as we explore this Pulitizer-price-winning work of Appalachian fiction.
Our First Book Selection
"Anyone will tell you the born of this world are marked from the get-out, win or lose."
About Demon Copperhead
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Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenage single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.
Many generations ago, Charles Dickens wrote David Copperfield from his experience as a survivor of institutional poverty and its damages to children in his society. Those problems have yet to be solved in ours. Dickens is not a prerequisite for readers of this novel, but he provided its inspiration. In transposing a Victorian epic novel to the contemporary American South, Barbara Kingsolver enlists Dickens' anger and compassion, and above all, his faith in the transformative powers of a good story. Demon Copperhead speaks for a new generation of lost boys, and all those born into beautiful, cursed places they can't imagine leaving behind.
