#106: Reel by Kennedy Ryan + Summer Picnic and Book Swap

Our August book selection is Reel by Kennedy Ryan. Feel free to bring food and drinks (or even a whole picnic basket!) to enjoy before, during, and after the discussion. Please also bring at least one book to give away or swap.

We will meet at Promontory Point, near the Promontory Field House. Our meeting location is in the park by the lake, NOT the restaurant/music venue near 53rd Street. Please leave yourself enough time to find your way, and read the directions under "How to find us" carefully.

About the book: Neevah Saint is ready for the spotlight. After months as an understudy, this is her night to shine. She never imagined he would be in the audience. Canon Holt. Famous film director. Fascinating. Talented. Fine. Before she can catch her breath, everything is changing. Neevah goes from backstage Broadway to center stage Hollywood. From being unknown, to having her name on everyone's lips when Canon casts her as the lead in a star-studded Harlem Renaissance biopic. But forbidden attraction, scandal, and circumstances beyond Neevah's control soon put her dream in jeopardy. Could this one shot—the role of a lifetime, the love of a lifetime—cost her everything?

***Support Black Girls Read Chicago by purchasing Reel on Bookshop (affiliate link).