Join us for the rolling Kickoff Celebration and Book Signings all around Atlanta!
About the Book Club
The Better World Book Club is jumping off your computer screen and into participating Atlanta area Whole Foods Markets. We'll be meeting the first Thursday of every month beginning December 3rd with yummy snacks provided by Whole Foods Market, book info provided by Better World Books and great conversation provided by you!
Books will be available for sale for the month prior to the meeting at Whole Foods Markets or on BetterWorldBooks.com with a portion of every sale going to support Books for Africa. We'll be reading a wide variety of books from current fiction, non-fiction and memoirs to classics and as yet undiscovered gems. To see our archive of previous selections click here or for more information on the book club email bookclub@betterworldbooks.com.
About the Book
The Washington Post called OUTCASTS UNITED 'an uplifting tale celebrating the most old-fashioned of virtues: hard work, self-discipline, regard for others.
OUTCASTS UNITED is the story of a refugee soccer team, a remarkable woman coach and a small southern town turned upside down by the process of refugee resettlement.
In the 1990s, that town, Clarkston, Georgia, became a resettlement center for refugees and a modern-day Ellis Island for scores of families from war zones in Liberia, Congo, Sudan, Iraq and Afghanistan. The town also became home to Luma Mufleh, an American-educated Jordanian woman who founded a youth soccer team to help keep Clarkston’s boys off the streets. These boys named themselves the Fugees -- short for refugees.
OUTCASTS UNITED follows a pivotal season in the life of the Fugees, their families and their charismatic coach as they struggle to build new lives in a fading town overwhelmed by change. Theirs is a story about resilience in the face of extraordinary hardship, the power of one person to make a difference and the daunting challenge of creating community in a place where people seem to have so little in common.