2nd Monday Book Club
Monday, June 9th; 6:30pm; Founders Hall

Lovely One: A Memoir by Ketanji Brown Jackson (2024)

Named “Ketanji Onyika,” meaning “Lovely One,” based on a suggestion from her aunt, a Peace Corps worker stationed in West Africa, Justice Jackson learned from her educator parents to take pride in her heritage since birth. She describes her resolve as a young girl to honor this legacy and realize her dreams: from hearing stories of her grandparents and parents breaking barriers in the segregated South, to honing her voice in high school as an oratory champion and student body president, to graduating magna cum laude from Harvard, where she performed in musical theater and improv and participated in pivotal student organizations.

Here, Justice Jackson pulls back the curtain, marrying the public record of her life with what is less known. She reveals what it takes to advance in the legal profession when most people in power don’t look like you, and to reconcile a demanding career with the joys and sacrifices of marriage and motherhood.

We will have our discussion on June 9th at 6:30pm at UUFSD, in Founders Hall West.

Questions or comments can be sent to bookclub@uufsd.org or by calling/texting Cathy Leach-Phillips at 650 224-1974.