UUA Bookstores Presents the UUA COMMON READ

The UUA Common Read is a great way to stay connected with your faith community and deepen your own spiritual experience. The UUA Common Read gives diverse people a shared experience in order to have deep, meaningful conversations. Your UUA Bookstore has copies of the current Common Read, Behind the Kitchen Door, and selections from past years.

How do restaurant workers live on some of the lowest wages in America? And how do poor working conditions impact the meals that arrive at our restaurant tables and our wider culture?

In Behind the Kitchen Door, Saru Jayaraman offers a groundbreaking exploration of the political, economic, and moral implications of dining out. Purchase today. Get the free discussion guide (PDF).

In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race explicitly as a justification for discrimination.

Yet as legal star Michelle Alexander reveals in The New Jim Crow, today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against convicted criminals in ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Purchase today.Get the free discussion guide (PDF).

Growing up outside Chicago, subject to a constant barrage of racist bullying and unsure of what it meant to be Muslim, Eboo Patel had a gut-wrenching feeling of being excluded from mainstream society.

Patel's most important discovery from this experience was his concrete responsibility to make the best part of that past-the possibility of pluralism-a reality in the contemporary world. Purchase today. Get the freediscussion guide (PDF).

With a sweeping perspective and vivid on-the-ground reportage, Margaret Regan tells the stories of the escalating chaos along the U.S.-Mexico border.

A varied cast of characters emerges as she rides shotgun with the Border Patrol, interviews deported Mexicans and angry Arizona ranchers, visits migrant shelters in Mexico, and camps out in the thorny wilderness with "No More Deaths" activists. Purchase today. Get the free discussion guide (PDF).

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