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COLLECTIVE Book Club
A curated reflective reading space for women who engage books as mirrors for life & healing.
We read thoughtfully chosen works by Black (African/Caribbean) & marginalized women, gathering to explore how stories shape perspective, spark reflection, & connect to our lived experiences. Conversations are guided, gentle, & grounded in care, to make it safe for women at every place in their healing journey.
Trauma-aware. Reflective. Life-integrated. A doorway to connection, calm, & collective care.
COLLECTIVE Book Club | October book selection
October's COLLECTIVE Book Club selection explores grief, family, and the questions love leaves behind. Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli follows Eve, a young British-Nigerian woman whose world unravels after she loses her husband, Quentin, to suicide. What follows is a tender, honest, and often darkly funny look at mourning, the weight of unanswered questions, and the slow, imperfect work of choosing to live again.[https://amzn.to/4ee0dvk]
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Oct 11 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | September 2026 Reflection
September's COLLECTIVE Book Club took us into Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid. For much of the novel, Emira Tucker is talked about, spoken for and decided around. Then, in one uncomfortable, messy moment, she speaks for herself and acts on it. Finding your voice is only the beginning. Choosing yourself is what comes next. Read our full September reflection on the blog.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Sep 303 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | August 2026 Reflection
August's COLLECTIVE Book Club took us into the lives of four African women navigating love, motherhood, ambition, and disappointment in Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Set largely in Maryland and D.C. during the 2020 lockdown, the novel asks a question many of us know well: Is this the life I thought I would have? The women who appear to have the most are still searching. The woman who has endured the most finds joy in what remains. A reflection on finding aafiyah in
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Aug 315 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | July 2026 Reflection
July’s COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection explores freedom, inheritance, and legacy. Red Clay by Charles B. Fancher introduces Felix H. Parker, a man born enslaved in Alabama whose life stretches from slavery through emancipation and its complicated aftermath. Through Felix and the generations connected to Road’s End, we consider the difference between freedom and equality, the stories and silences families inherit, and what we choose to carry forward.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Jul 316 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | June 2026 Reflection
June’s COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection explores intuition, truth, and silence. The Secret Keeper of Main Street by Trisha R. Thomas introduces Bailey Dowery, a Black dressmaker in 1954 Oklahoma whose gift of “second sight” reveals what others keep hidden. Through Bailey, we consider the tension between knowing and proving, inherited lessons of survival, and the cost of speaking the truth.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Jun 305 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | May 2026 Reflection
May’s COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection invites us into the complicated spaces between freedom, identity, and belonging. What Passes as Love by Trisha R. Thomas introduces us to Dahlia Holt, an enslaved young woman who reinvents herself as Lily Dove and crosses the color line in pursuit of freedom. Through Dahlia, we explored the cost of survival, the weight of living between worlds, and what it means to be truly free when safety requires hiding who you are.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
May 317 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | April 2026 Reflection
April's COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection invites us into a story that stayed long after the last page. Kin by Tayari Jones found us where we were — and led us somewhere deeper. Through Vernice and Annie, two women shaped by the wound of motherlessness, we explored what we inherit without choosing, and how absence can quietly author the whole of a life.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Apr 264 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | March 2026 Reflection
March’s COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection invites us to sit with stories of care, displacement, and quiet resilience. Through Keepers of Lost Children, we are asked to consider what it means to hold others while navigating our own becoming. Our reflection moved beyond the story into lived experience ... examining the balance between caring for others and tending to ourselves, and asking: What am I holding that I need to release?
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Mar 313 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | February 2026 Reflection
February’s COLLECTIVE Book Club reflection draws us into a story of migration, survival, and the unseen labor women carry across generations. Through The Parlour Wife, we explore the weight of expectation, the search for belonging, and the quiet strength it takes to navigate unfamiliar worlds while holding onto self.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Feb 283 min read
COLLECTIVE Book Club | January 2026 Reflection
January’s COLLECTIVE Book Club discussion opened the year with a thoughtful exploration of identity, healing, and the unseen layers women carry. Through Nightbloom, we reflected on the quiet unfolding of self, the complexities of belonging, and the ways our stories shape how we move through the world.
Dr. 'Demi Fauziyyah ADEBO-Adelaja
Jan 312 min read
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