Book completed

[eve_prime]

You Belong: A Call for Connection, by Sebene Selassie. This is the book my neighborhood book club chose for tomorrow's meeting, but having made myself read it, I can say that I am definitely not in the intended audience for this book. It's a gentle introduction to Buddhism and meditation for marginalized people (and self-marginalized, too, those who are convinced they aren't worthy of inclusion, like with imposter syndrome or whatever). But I've already read dozens of books on Buddhism, mindfulness, embodied cognition, etc., and I've already internalized a lot of those messages, so there really wasn't much new here for me, although the author seems pleasant, and her life seems interesting.

Second, as a middle-aged, middle-class, white woman, I'm not convinced that people in my demographic can really benefit from hearing that we belong everywhere. I'd be more interested in reading about how we can explore and make peace with the fact that we don't belong everywhere; believing that we do can be yet one more symptom of entitlement. I wish she'd addressed this topic too. Oh well, maybe our discussion will be interesting.