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When diverse groups navigate political literature across lived experience

Our book club chose a novel about immigration and now we're having reading discussions where some people relate to it as literature and others are talking about their lived experience, and the conversation keeps fracturing along lines we don't know how to bridge.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community discovers that engaging with political content reveals unbridgeable differences between intellectual exercise and personal reality.

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