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A variety of events and programs geared for adults.
Books Build Bridges: Connecting Communities Through Reading by Danielle Acton
September 1 – October 14 HEPL’s new community read initiative, Books Build Bridges, will engage readers of all ages this fall. Our aim is to build community through shared experience, to provide diverse reading opportunities, and to engage our communities with noted authors. The featured novels for the inaugural Books Build Bridges Community Read are: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones and Dear Martin by Nic Stone To participate in Books Build Bridges, you can pick up a free copy of the featured novels (yours to keep, available while supplies last) at the library beginning September 1. Or, borrow a copy from our shelves or digitally through OverDrive/Libby or Hoopla!
An Oprah’s Book Club Selection, An American Marriage by Tayari Jones was named a notable book by The New York Times and The Washington Post and was included on former President Obama’s Best of 2018 roundup, in addition to being awarded the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Aspen Words Prize, and an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work in Fiction. It has been published in over 20 countries, with over a million copies in print around the world. In this “moving portrayal of the effects of a wrongful conviction on a young AfricanAmerican couple” (Barack Obama, on selecting the novel for his summer reading list), Jones introduces us to Celestial and Discover Guide
Roy, a newlywed couple standing on the threshold of the American Dream. When Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, their lives implode. And when his conviction is overturned five years later, both must navigate the unimaginable fallout of their enforced estrangement. “Tayari Jones is a bard of the modern South, a writer whose skill at weaving stories is matched only by her
Registration required. compassion for her characters. While An American Marriage confronts thorny issues around race and the criminal justice system it is, at heart, a love story. It’s also a meditation on the creation of art, the meaning of family and the conflict between duty and desire. Jones has crafted a complex, layered story that’s both intimate and broad, a literary page-turner that’s impossible to put down.” —The Los Angeles Times
“While An American Marriage confronts thorny issues around race and the criminal justice system it is, at heart, a love story.”
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