Pages of Change: A Wildflyer Book Club

Pages of Change: A Wildflyer Book Club is a platform to explore impactful literature and contribute to the broader conversation about youth homelessness. Wildflyer Coffee aims to create a space through this initiative where community members can come together, learn, and actively participate in addressing this critical issue.

We choose a new book every quarter that focuses on poverty, housing instability, personal stories, and methods of solving homelessness. We meet on the last Tuesday of the month for two hours (7-9 p.m.), with the first two meetings online and the third in-person at the shop, for discussion, coffee, and pastries. We invite the author or another community expert to the last session to help shape our conversations. This quarter’s Tuesday meeting dates are: August 27, September 24, and October 29. Registration is currently closed—stay tuned for the next round!

For the current quarter, we are reading Evicted by Matthew Desmond. Evicted is a New York Times best seller, has received numerous accolades, and has been selected as one of the best books of the year by publications like The New Yorker, Bloomberg, and The Washington Post. “In Evicted, Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible.” -evictedbook.com