Good Trouble Book Club: Giving Up is Unforgivable by Joyce Vance

We are meeting at the Influence Cafe (3324 Secor Rd., Suite 2 & 3, Toledo). Our next book club book is Giving Up Is Unforgivable: A Manual for Keeping a Democracy by Joyce Vance. (ISBN: 9798217178117 / 224 pages / c2025).

This book from Joyce White Vance: equal parts civics class, history lesson, and call to save the Republic, Giving Up Is Unforgivable is a political manifesto for our present moment. 'We're in this together.' For the past two years, Joyce Vance has signed off posts on her chart-topping Substack, Civil Discourse, with these four words. In that time, she's guided readers through a continued erosion of democratic norms, the unprecedented felony conviction of an ex-president, and the approaching specter of a second Trump administration. Now that it's upon us, Vance helps us understand how to avoid burnout and despair and exercise the democratic muscles we need to save the Republic. Giving Up Is Unforgivable is a clarion call to action — putting our current crisis in historical context and sketching out a vision for where we go next. Vance's message is hopeful at its heart, even as it acknowledges the daunting challenges that lie ahead. 

Join us even if you have not had time to read it. We hope to cover several topics raised throughout the book that are relevant to our current situation.

There are plenty of copies available at the Toledo Lucas County Public Library Giving Up Is Unforgivable | Toledo Library | BiblioCommons. 

We hope to hear what you are reading, whether fiction or non-fiction. Come up with some ideas for future books to read. We are trying to keep the books to a reasonable length, 250 pages or below. Books over 200 pages will be split into multiple books for more than one book club meeting.