Leaders are Readers!

Join the 20/30 Club Book Club and participate in monthly discussions with other young leaders. Stay inspired, re-read a classic, or learn new strategies for being an effective leader. The theme for July is Disability Pride Month!

Registration is required in advance of the event. Book club will be a monthly series. Each attendee will have a chance to share their thoughts and discuss concepts from the book. Please feel free to bring discussion questions you'd like to cover and/or books to swap with other members!

This event has a small fee to cover food and is open to both Professional and Social members, however, we encourage our members to patronize our venue host. Know a book we should read next? Send us your favorites to be considered for future reads.

Goodreads Summary:

True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history finals, and have politicians, doctors, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked when his baby sister is born hearing; and February, the headmistress, who is fighting to keep her school open and her marriage intact, but might not be able to do both. As a series of crises both personal and political threaten to unravel each of them, Charlie, Austin, and February find their lives inextricable from one another's—and changed forever.

This is a story of sign language and lip-reading, disability and civil rights, isolation and injustice, first love and loss, and, above all, great persistence, daring, and joy. Absorbing and assured, idiosyncratic and relatable, this is an unforgettable journey into the Deaf community and a universal celebration of human connection.