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One Book/Many Voices program features Sherman Alexie
Aug 13, 2008 12:00 AM
By Tannika King - Faculty
Last fall, Darlington students and faculty shared a powerful experience reading “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and hearing Maya Angelou speak thanks to the Rome community’s One Book/Many Voices reading initiative. This year the program continues with best-selling author Sherman Alexie and his memoir, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.”
In his first book for young adults, Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character’s art, is based on the author’s own experiences and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live.
Alexie will speak at Pepperell High School on Sept. 18, and area students may enter a writing contest, for either prose or poetry, based on their experience reading the book. Please click here for more information and contest details.
Modeled after similar initiatives throughout the nation, One Book/Many Voices is designed to encourage reading, spark discussion and bring the community together through the reading of one great book. Organizers encourage local book clubs, schools, civic organizations and churches to host opportunities for discussion.
In his first book for young adults, Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, coupled with poignant drawings that reflect the character’s art, is based on the author’s own experiences and chronicles the contemporary adolescence of one Native American boy as he attempts to break away from the life he seems destined to live.
Alexie will speak at Pepperell High School on Sept. 18, and area students may enter a writing contest, for either prose or poetry, based on their experience reading the book. Please click here for more information and contest details.
Modeled after similar initiatives throughout the nation, One Book/Many Voices is designed to encourage reading, spark discussion and bring the community together through the reading of one great book. Organizers encourage local book clubs, schools, civic organizations and churches to host opportunities for discussion.
