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August Gramercy Book Club featuring Song of Solomon

Gramercy Book Club’s August selection is Song of Solomon, a brilliantly imagined coming-of-age storyfrom acclaimed Nobel Prize winnerToni Morrison,where shecreates inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.This book club program is the final of the series of Morrison’s novels that Gramercy Books will be exploring in 2026 in partnership with Ohioana Library as part of a statewide initiative celebrating Morrison’s indelible impact. Ohio State University History professor and scholarHasan Jeffrieswill facilitate the group discussion.

Registration is on Eventbrite. A ticket to this program includes a copy of SONG OF SOLOMON.It is strongly encouraged that registrants read the book prior to the program.

OHIOANA LIBRARY and the OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY are Gramercy’s Community Partners for this program.

Toni Morrisonwas the author of eleven novels, from The Bluest Eye (1970) to God Help the Child (2015). She received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and in 1993 she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. She died in 2019.

Hasan Jeffries is a College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Endowed Associate Professor in the Department of History at The Ohio State University where he teaches, researches, and writes about the African American experience. He is the author of Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama’s Black Beltand is the editor ofUnderstanding and Teaching the Civil Rights Movement, a collection of essays by leading civil rights scholars on how to teach the Civil Rights Movement. Jeffries wrote and narrated the 10-episode Audible Original seriesGreat Figures of the Civil Rights Movement. He has also worked on several public history projects, including serving as the lead historian for the $27 million renovation of the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee, site of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He earned his BA in history from Morehouse College and his PhD in American history with a specialization in African American history from Duke University.

Details: Tue, 8/4/2026, 7:00pm at Gramercy Books 2424 East Main Street Bexley, OH 43209

Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gramercy-book-club-features-toni-morrisons-song-of-solomon-in-august-tickets-1988785111806?aff=oddtdtcreator

Questions? Please email: gramercyinfo@gramercybooksbexley.com