August 2026 Alumni and Friends Virtual Book Club

Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home by Nora Krug

Tuesday, August 18, 25, September 1
5:00 - 6:30 p.m. Central Time

There is no cost to participate, but registration is required. You will need to purchase a copy of the book. It will be discussed over three sessions, with an option to listen to the author address the Luther community during the livestream of Opening Convocation on September 3 at 9:40 am.

Enrollment is limited to 40. First-come; first-served. 

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR , Comics Beat, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Kirkus Reviews, and Library Journal

"Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement; though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it. After twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier" - Summary from Goodreads
 
Discussion Leader(s):
Registration Deadline: August 11, 2026

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