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Portland Book Festival: Isabel Wilkerson in Conversation With Viet Thanh Nguyen
November 19, 2020 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
$32.00The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns gives us a masterful portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America. In Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories about real people, how America today and throughout its history has been shaped by a hidden caste system, a rigid hierarchy of human rankings. Beautifully written, original, and revealing, Caste is an eye-opening story of people and history, and a reexamination of what lies under the surface of ordinary lives and of America life today.