I’ve teamed up with @booksparks to share another book with you guys that was included in the #blinddatewithabook event at @talbotsofficial stores over the summer. The Outskirts of Hope by Jo Ivester is one of the 11 books featured during this event that focused on strong themes like anti-bullying/racism, overcoming obstacles, and empowerment, all written by female authors. . To learn more, visit @booksparks! And check out @goodreads too for a chance to win a copy of this book! 🤓🖤________________________________________________________ 📖Synopsis: In 1967, when Jo Ivester was ten years old, her father transplanted his young family from a suburb of Boston to a small town in the heart of the Mississippi cotton fields, where he became the medical director of a clinic that served the poor population for miles around. But ultimately it was not Ivester’s father but her mother—a stay-at-home mother of four who became a high school English teacher when the family moved to the South—who made the most enduring mark on the town. . In The Outskirts of Hope, Ivester uses journals left by her mother, as well as writings of her own, to paint a vivid, moving, and inspiring portrait of her family’s experiences living and working in an all-black town during the height of the civil rights movement. ________________________________________________________ #theoutskirtsofhope #joivester #bookmail #booksparks #talbots #booksandbeans #bookworm #bookstagram #bookish #coffeeaddict #bookstagrammer