Join us for Speed Reading Book Club, a book discussion inspired by both special exhibitions and artworks in the Speed’s permanent collection! You can find copies of all the Book Club books in the Museum Store.

Speed Reading Book Club is free with admission and will be in person.

February 3, 2024
Shadowshaper by Daniel José Elder 

Sierra Santiago planned an easy summer of making art and hanging with her friends. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season. Her stroke-ridden grandfather starts apologizing over and over. And when the murals in her neighborhood begin to weep real tears . . . Well, something more sinister than the usual Brooklyn ruckus is going on.
Content warnings: Death, Sexism, Racial Slurs, Violence, Stalking, and Grief
Connected exhibition(s): Current Speed: Angel Otero / Leslie Martinez  & The Bitter and the Sweet: Kentucky Sugar Chests, Enslavement, and the Transatlantic World 1790-1865