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Marygrove Conservancy Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series: Percival Everett
Season 2025
Episode 26
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Readers Club | Rachel Khong
In immersive, moving prose, Rachel Khong weaves a profound tale of class and striving, race and visibility, and family and inheritance—a story of trust, forgiveness, and finally coming home. Exuberant and explosive, Real Americans is a social novel par excellence that asks: Are we destined, or made? And if we are made, who gets to do the making? Can our genetic past be overcome?