Join the Humanities Center at Great Basin College and Nevada Humanities on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 5:00 - 6:00 pm PT for an online discussion and Zoom book club with Nevada Reads author Morgan Jerkins about her book Wandering in Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots.

Copies of Nevada Reads books are available at all Great Basin College campuses. This online book club is free and open to the public. Find the Zoom link below, and on the Humanities Center at Great Basin College website.

Morgan Jerkins is the author of the New York Times bestseller This Will Be My Undoing, as well as the critically acclaimed books, Wandering In Strange Lands and Caul Baby. She holds a Bachelor’s in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. Jerkins is a Forbes 30 Under 30 Leader in Media alumna, a 2021 ASME Next recipient for her literary initiative at Medium’s ZORA, and an ASME Award winner for co-editing a special issue on the 10th anniversary of Trayvon Martin and the Black Lives Matter movement for New York Magazine.

In Wandering in Strange Lands, a fascinating and deeply personal exploration, Jerkins recreates her ancestors’ journeys across America, in a movement known as The Great Migration. Following in their footsteps, she seeks to understand not only her own past, but the lineage of an entire group of people who have been displaced, disenfranchised, and disrespected throughout our history. Through interviews, photos, and hundreds of pages of transcription, Jerkins braids the loose threads of her family’s oral histories, which she was able to trace back 300 years, with the insights and recollections of black people she met along the way—the tissue of Black myths, customs, and blood that connect the bones of American history.

This event is made possible by the support of: Nevada Humanities, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Humanities Center at Great Basin College, and Great Basin College