If all of eastern Connecticut were to read one book, which would it be?

Librarians, educators and community members gather each year with that simple assignment – pick one book that 500,000 or so people who live east of the Connecticut River can read and talk about.

a novel by Geraldine Brooks

Illustration by Anthony Russo

Please join us to meet Geraldine Brooks, author of the 2012 “one book.”

11th Annual kickoff event
May 8, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.

Mystic Arts Center
9 Water Street, Mystic, CT 06355

Brooks was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 2006 for her novel March.
Her first novel, Year of Wonders, is an international bestseller and
People of the Book is a New York Times bestseller translated into 20 languages.

Rhode Island’s LIVING LITERATURE readers’ theater troupe
will present selections from Caleb’s Crossing.