On Belonging

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates, an African-American perspective on belonging

Mary Oliver uses poetry to explore the intricacies of connections we have to the natural world, while Audre Lorde writes as a “Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a lesbian, a feminist, a visionary.”

Mary and Max, directed by Adam Elliot, is a stop motion animation film about healing loneliness.

Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging, by Sebastian Junger, explores tribal societies and belonging.

Gina Nahai tells the story of a Jewish family in 1780s Persia, over seven generations, to contemporary Iran in Cry of the Peacock.

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