The 2023-2024 UUA Common Read

A crucial new lens on repentance, atonement, forgiveness, and repair from harm—from personal transgressions to our culture’s most painful and unresolved issues

PAPERBACK EDITION

Julia Watts Belser is the 2024 UUA General Assembly Ware Lecturer.

A spiritual companion and political manifesto that cuts through objectification and inspiration alike to offer a powerful new account of disability in biblical narrative and contemporary culture

For disabled people in religious communities, their families, and clergy and congregants

Legendary writer Gayl Jones returns with a stunning new novel about Black American artists in exile

Challenges narrow perceptions of Blackness as both an identity and lived reality to understand the diversity of what it means to be Black in the US and around the world

A call to action for the creative class and labor movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media

An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism

This American Book Award–winning title about Native American struggle and resistance radically reframes more than 400 years of US history

A National Poetry Series winner selected by Victoria Chang, Sweet Movie confronts romantic and religious masochism to interrogate spiritual, sexual, and moral agency

A rich, accomplised, intensely intimate collection with two full sections of new poems bookending Blanco’s selections from his five previous volumes

First book to argue that immigrant and refugee rights are part of the fight for racial justice; offers a humanitarian approach to reform and abolition

An eye-opening portrait of the diverse disability community as it is today, and how disability attitudes, activism, and representation have evolved since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds