Jonathan Kozol to Speak at Round Hill

Round Hill Community Church invites you to a conversation with National Book Award Winner Jonathan Kozol, author of Fire in the Ashes: Twenty-Five Years Among the Poorest Children in America. Friday, March 31 at 8:00 p.m. at Round Hill Community Church, followed by Q & A, book signing, and wine and cheese reception. The cost for the event is $10.

Jonathan Kozol, one of our nation’s most persistent and prophetic advocates for children of poverty, is known for “laying bare the savage inequalities inflicted upon children for no reason but the accident of being born into poverty.” Through personal commitment, books, and advocacy, he has taken on the challenge of providing equal opportunity to every child in our public schools. Kozol will be in conversation with the Senior Pastor of Round Hill Community Church, the Rev. Dr. Ed Horstmann.

Kozol has said "When I talk with children about their daydreams and fantasies, about heaven, about animals and other gentle aspects of their yearning, I'm not asking those questions as an ingenious interviewer. I'm asking because I really want to know the answer. Sometimes I feel I almost conspire with the children to imagine a better world than the one we're stuck with." The Plough, 1996.

Kozol’s most recent book, Fire in the Ashes, is a sweeping narrative that follows a group of children in a destitute community out of their infancy and elementary grades, through their secondary years, into their late teens, and beyond. Some of their stories are painful and heart-breaking, but others are dramatic tributes to the resilience and audacity of courageous children who refuse to be defeated by the obstacles they face and find their way at last to unexpected and triumphal victories.

To reserve, visit roundhillcommunitychurch.org or call 203-869-1091.

Round Hill Community Church, 395 Round Hill Road, Greenwich, CT 06831

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