New Thing 203, New Thing Every Day: Start Reading Columbia's One Read Book

The Columbia One Read program, hosted by Daniel Boone Regional Library, is such a cool program. I love the idea that the community has chosen one book and is reading it together. This year's book is The Turner House, by Angela Flournoy.

Here is a summary of the book (from the library website):
“The Turner House” is a moving and celebratory portrait of a family and a city in transition. The house on Detroit’s Yarrow Street has been home to the colorful and complicated Turners for more than 50 years. The family matriarch’s failing health, the declining neighborhood and an underwater mortgage force a family meeting to decide the house’s fate. Cha-Cha, the oldest son and unofficial head of the Turner clan, wrangles with his family’s past and the varied demands of his 12 siblings in this entertaining and vividly drawn family saga. In Angela Flournoy’s novel, the story of the Turners is also the story of Detroit, the Great Migration and this country’s recent economic turmoil.

Here is a link to the One Read program -- http://oneread.dbrl.org/