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Author and therapist Lori Gottlieb (@lorigottlieb_author) is back for The Stacks Book Club discussion of The Unwinding of the Miracle by Julie Yip-Williams. This emotional memoir follows Yip-Williams as she reckons with her terminal cancer diagnosis and what it means to die with dignity. • • Today we discuss the book and grief and bucket lists and more. There are no spoilers. • • What’s one thing on your bucket list? To hear what’s on ours, tune in. • • The episode is up now where ever you get your podcasts. Happy listening. #thestacksbookclub How We Fight White Supremacy||Akiba Solomon & Kenrya Rankin • • [thank you to @boldtypebooks for this review copy] The central question of this book is “how do you fight White supremacy?”. The answers come in the form of essays, comics, sermons, poems, interviews, sculptures, playlists, and more, and illustrate the vastness of Black resistance. • • What I loved most about this book is how dynamic it is. The authors have done a fantastic job including unique and differing voices within the Black community to join this important and ever relevant conversation. How We Fight White Supremacy is a reminder that Black folks are not and never have been a monolith. I found myself relating to and reflecting on so much of this book and the work that must be done to gain equality for Black people. • • What’s a collection that has multiple contributors that you’ve loved? • • I recommend this book because it is vast and is far from one note. There are pieces that are funny, exciting, absurd, inspiring, and they keep just coming. If you consider yourself to be part of the resistance pick up this book to get to know your fellow fighters! • • See my full review on the website and hear Solomon and Rankin on the podcast (links to both in bio). #thestacksreview We’ve got TWO guests today on The Short Stacks and we couldn’t be more thrilled. The authors of How We Fight White Supremacy, Akiba Solomon (@akibajsolomon) and Kenrya Rankin (@kenrya), join us to talk about their book and how it all came together. • • What’s one way you resist? • • Check out this episode where ever you listen to podcasts or through the link in bio. If you like what you hear subscribe, write a review, or just generally shout it from the rooftops. #theshortstacks The Honey Bus||Meredith May • • When May’s parents divorce her mother takes her and her brother across country to live with their grandparents in California. There’s a neglect and adversity and poverty on one hand, and a fantastic beekeeping grandpa on the other. • • In her memoir (which may or may not be YA, but certainly is appropriate for younger audiences) May tells her story and uses lessons from her grandpa and bees to highlight those lessons. It’s clever and anything to do with bees in Honey in the book is grade A. I was fully rapt learning about the ways each bee has a different role in the hive, and how a new queen is formed. So interesting and made me want to start making my own honey. • • I didn’t end up caring about May’s family much. Her mom was pretty troubled and you got that sense early on. Her grandmother wasn’t much better. There wasn’t much development on that front. I always knew what was coming when it came to her family and while I was rooting for May, I knew she’d be ok, she wrote the book after all. I found the epilogue to be the most compelling part of the book besides the bee stuff. • • What’s a memoir about family dysfunction that you’ve really enjoyed? • • Thank you to @keltie to letting me borrow her copy. She loved the book and I think you might too if you’re looking for a summer coming of age memoir with some drama but nothing too heavy. #thestacksreview White Rage||Carol Anderson • • This book looks at the history of racism as it pertains to White reactionary anger and the systemic oppression of Black people through policy and actions from the end of the Civil War on. Anderson posits that White rage is a response to Black advancement, and is crucial in maintaining the educational, political, and economic advantages of White people. • • What I liked most about this book was Anderson’s ability to break down the idea of White rage through clear historic examples. She sites Supreme Court cases and contemporaneous documents, and she unpacks the intent and impact of these laws and policies. She is a fantastic guide and makes her points clearly. I always understood what I was reading and how it connected to previous sections. • • This book isn’t narrative and can be a bit of a slower read. It’s short but full of facts and figures and dates. I was glad to read something clinical about race, even if that meant I was reading at a slower pace. A lot of the information I knew from other books, but seeing it all here as part of a grander plan of subjugating Black folks was powerful and infuriating. • • What’s a nonfiction book focused on racism that you’ve loved? • • For folks who are interested in the work of antiracism I suggest you read this book as it is a great breakdown of how White Supremacy has created a system riddled with inequities and a roadmap of how we should fight back. • • Shout out to another great read with the #BuddyReadBrigade. #thestacksreview Lori Gottlieb (@lorigottlieb_author) is a therapist, journalist, and the author of the NYT bestseller, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone. She’s also an avid reader and our guest today on the podcast. We talk about the importance of mental healthcare, the stigmas around therapy, and Lori’s slogan, ABAB — always bring a book! • • What’s a book you love that deals with mental health and/or therapy? • • Don’t forget to enter our giveaway to win a copy of Lori’s book (check our previous post) and go enjoy this episode full of book recs where ever you get your podcasts! #thestacks

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