“A Good Time for the Truth” with One Book | One Minnesota
We hope you’ll join Minnesota’s statewide book club, One Book | One Minnesota, invites Minnesotans to read “A Good Time For the Truth,” edited by Sun Yung Shin.
Each of the book’s sixteen authors contributes a chapter to share their perspective on life as a person of color in Minnesota. The book’s publisher, Minnesota Historical Society Press, notes in its description that “Minnesota communities struggle with some of the nation’s worst racial disparities. As its authors confront and consider the realities that lie beneath the numbers, this book provides an important tool to those who want to be part of closing those gaps.”
“A Good Time for the Truth” is now available to all Minnesotans via Ebooks Minnesota. Ebooks Minnesota is perfect for a statewide book club because there is no limit to the number of Minnesotans who can simultaneously read any of the books in its online collection. Ebooks Minnesota offers over 10,000 books without requiring that readers pay a fee, log in, check out, or return books. Readers are granted access simply by virtue of their presence in the state of Minnesota. Ebooks Minnesota is a program of Minitex, a division of the University of Minnesota Libraries.
You can read this book anytime at no cost on ebooksmn.org, thanks to your local library! Download and read this book here.
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