An informal community gathering will offer new opportunities to study the works of author and Hopkinsville native bell hooks in her hometown.
The bell hooks Book Club will have its first meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, June 17, at the Pennyroyal Area Museum to discuss hooks’ book “Communion: The Female Search for Love.”
The book club is a collaboration of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County and the bell hooks Legacy Group. The book chosen for the first meeting is part of hooks’ love trilogy.
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“‘Communion’ is described as the ‘heart-to-heart talk every woman — mother, daughter, friend, and lover — needs to have’ about the search for love,” museum executive director Alissa Keller said in a press release.
A Los Angeles Times reviewer wrote of the 2002 book, “hooks is the perfect person to synthesize a generation’s worth of scholarship, self-help books, and women’s personal experiences on the subject of self-development, intimate relationships, and love.”
“Communion” is available to purchase in the museum’s Vault by Planters Bank gift shop at 217 E. Ninth St. or online through the museum’s Shopify store. It’s also available to check out from the Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library or to buy from various online sellers.
bell hooks is the pen name of the late Gloria Jean Watkins, who died on Dec. 15, 2021, at age 69. She was an internationally acclaimed feminist author of more than 30 books.
