September - Killers of the Flower Moon

Well, this month we figured out that switching books only a couple of weeks before the meeting only works if people can get the book from the library. Which, surprisingly, you couldn't do with this book even though it's been out for almost a year and a half. Still, half of those of us who could make the meeting had at least read some of it.

We had to force ourselves to get on track and talk about the book for a while, even so. Those of us who read the book liked it, in no small part because we liked having our eyes opened to something we'd been unaware of before. Cheryl had heard about what had happened to the Osage before - NPR, PBS, one of those places. Even being a room full of women who have their eyes open to the corruption in government and the justice system, we still found the level of corruption at this time and in this place astonishing. While we didn't talk as much about the book as we might have, I think we would all recommend the book.

The book references about two dozen murders but Mary Beth said that when she looked this up, there were references to there having been as many as sixty murders of the Osage people. Which makes it all the more amazing that the government was content to solve about a half dozen cases and call it good.

Now we're all wondering how many more stories like this are out there waiting to be found and told.