Explore new worlds and enjoy intriguing adventures through reading! This book group discusses nonfiction titles written by and about travelers throughout the world. For more information, please contact the Adult Reference Desk at 262-782-4140, option 1. The Last Thing You Surrender by Leonard Pitts (fiction)
Three people from the Jim Crow South face the enormous changes World War II triggers in the United States. An affluent white marine survives Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black messman's life only to be sent, wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and taken prisoner by the Japanese. A young black woman, widowed by the same events at Pearl, finds unexpected opportunity and a dangerous friendship in a segregated Alabama shipyard feeding the war. A black man, who as a child saw his parents brutally lynched, is conscripted to fight Nazis for a country he despises and discovers a new kind of patriotism in the all-black 761st Tank Battalion. What does it take to change someone's mind about race? What does it take for a country and a people to move forward, transformed? (Polaris Summary).
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