Chapters of Connection: Where Every Story Opens a New Conversation!

DEI Launches It's New Campus-Wide Virtual Book Club

Join Our Summer Series and Dive into a Best Selling Read!

Through books, thoughtful dialogue, and shared experiences, Chapters of Connection invites students, faculty, and staff to learn from one another, explore diverse perspectives, and build a more connected campus community.

This new initiative welcomes the FSC campus community to come together through the power of reading and discussion. Each selection offers an opportunity to connect and grow while fostering a culture of belonging across our campus.

Join Today! Register through the Microsoft Forms Page.

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If you'd like to join, please browse the chosen book titles and select one before registering. We are excited to connect with you through an exciting and thought provoking read!

Pachinko: Min Jin Lee, Good Reads Choice Award, Nominee for Readers' Favorite Fiction (2017)

In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant—and that her lover is married—she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations.

The Henna Artist: Alka Joshi, Good Reads Choice Award, Nominee for Readers' Favorite Historical Fiction (2020), Nominee for Readers' Debut Novel (2020)

Vivid and compelling in its portrait of one woman’s struggle for fulfillment in a society pivoting between the traditional and the modern, The Henna Artist opens a door into a world that is at once lush and fascinating, stark and cruel.

Escaping from an abusive marriage, seventeen-year-old Lakshmi makes her way alone to the vibrant 1950s pink city of Jaipur. There she becomes the most highly requested henna artist—and confidante, to the wealthy women of the upper class. But trusted with the secrets of the wealthy, she can never reveal her own.

A Thousand Splendid Suns: Khaled Hosseini

Mariam is only fifteen when she is sent to Kabul to marry the troubled and bitter Rasheed, who is thirty years her senior. Nearly two decades later, in a climate of growing unrest, tragedy strikes fifteen-year-old Laila, who must leave her home and join Mariam's unhappy household. Laila and Mariam are to find consolation in each other, their friendship to grow as deep as the bond between sisters, as strong as the ties between mother and daughter.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is a portrait of a wounded country and a story of family and friendship, of an unforgiving time, an unlikely bond, and an indestructible love.

The Vegetarian: Han Kang, From Han Kang, Winner of the 2024 Novel Prize in Literature

A New York Times Bestseller, Winner of the International Booker Prize, One of the New York Times's Best Books of the 21st Century, A Kirk Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century

Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself.

Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.

Cutting for Stone: Abraham Verghese

A sweeping, emotionally riveting first novel—an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home.

Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon at a mission hospital in Addis Ababa. Orphaned by their mother's death in childbirth and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Yet it will be love, not politics—their passion for the same woman—th7mat will tear them apart and force Marion, fresh out of medical school, to flee his homeland. He makes his way to America, finding refuge in his work as an intern at an underfunded, overcrowded New York City hospital. When the past catches up to him—nearly destroying him—Marion must entrust his life to the two men he thought he trusted least in the world: the surgeon father who abandoned him and the brother who betrayed him.

An unforgettable journey into one man's remarkable life, and an epic story about the power, intimacy, and curious beauty of the work of healing others.

Ward D: Freida McFadden, #1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publisher's Weekly, and Amazon Charts bestselling author

Medical student Amy Brenner is spending the night on a locked psychiatric ward.

Amy has been dreading her evening working on Ward D, the hospital’s inpatient mental health unit. There are very specific reasons why she never wanted to do this required overnight rotation. Reasons nobody can ever find out.

And as the hours tick by, Amy grows increasingly convinced something terrible is happening within these tightly secured walls. When patients and staff start to vanish without a trace, it becomes clear that everyone on the unit is in grave danger.

Amy’s worst nightmare was spending the night on Ward D.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

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