Event Title: LWVCM Book Club
Hosted by: Carolyn Lyons & Regan Aduddell
Event Date/Time: Tuesday January 25th, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
Message from host: Please plan to join us at our next LWVCM Book Club meeting to discuss Deirdre Mask’s The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power
When most people think about street addresses, if they think of them at all, it is in their capacity to ensure that the postman can deliver mail or a traveler won’t get lost. But street addresses were not invented to help you find your way; they were created to find you. In many parts of the world, your address can reveal your race and class. In this wide-ranging and remarkable book, Deirdre Mask looks at the fate of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr., the wayfinding means of ancient Romans, and how Nazis haunt the streets of modern Germany. The flipside of having an address is not having one, and we also see what that means for millions of people today, including those who live in the slums of Kolkata and on the streets of London. Filled with fascinating people and histories, The Address Book illuminates the complex and sometimes hidden stories behind street names and their power to name, to hide, to decide who counts, who doesn’t—and why.
Finalist for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction / One of Time Magazines's 100 Must-Read Books of 2020 / Longlisted for the 2020 Porchlight Business Book Awards
Deidre Mask is a writer, lawyer & academic. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardia, The New York Times, The Economist, Lit Hub, The Harvard Law Review, The New Hibernia Review, The Dublin Review, and Irish Pages. Originally from North Carolina, she currently resides in London with her husband and daughters.
LWVCM book club will meet every other month (via Zoom until further notice). Our book club is registered with Park Road Books (4139 Park Rd. Charlotte, NC 28209). At checkout, identify yourself as a LWVCM book club member and receive 20% off the purchases of this title (discount valid until 1/31/22).