{"id":1469,"date":"2022-11-09T19:40:16","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/?p=1469"},"modified":"2022-11-09T19:40:16","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T19:40:16","slug":"shana-stewart-deeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2022\/11\/09\/shana-stewart-deeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Shana Stewart Deeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My book group is reading <em>Black Cake<\/em> by Charmaine Wilkerson.\u00a0 What a book such as Robin Wall Kimmerer\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cbbcat.net\/search~S19\/?searchtype=X&amp;searcharg=braiding+sweetgrass&amp;searchscope=19&amp;sortdropdown=-&amp;SORT=D&amp;extended=0&amp;SUBMIT=Search&amp;searchlimits=&amp;searchorigarg=.b6571907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Braiding Sweetgrass<\/em> <\/a>is to science (PopSci \u2013 allowing the reader to empathize with the main character and their skillful explanation of science) <em>Black Cake<\/em> seems to be for sociology.\u00a0 My only trouble is keeping track of all the characters and how I think they are related to each other until it is revealed how their stories intertwine.\u00a0 It is a compelling look at the family lives of folks with a backdrop of race, immigration, belonging and more.<\/p>\n<p>I only wish the cake recipe was included \u2013 but I guess that\u2019s part of the point!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book group is reading Black Cake by Charmaine Wilkerson.\u00a0 What a book such as Robin Wall Kimmerer\u2019s Braiding Sweetgrass is to science (PopSci \u2013 allowing the reader to empathize with the main character and their skillful explanation of science) Black Cake seems to be for sociology.\u00a0 My only trouble is keeping track of all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2022\/11\/09\/shana-stewart-deeds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shana Stewart Deeds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1469"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1469\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}