Novel chosen for ‘If All Arkansas Read the Same Book’

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — The Arkansas Heart for the Guide introduced that the 2022 “If All Arkansas Learn the Identical Guide” program will function Emily St. John Mandel’s newest novel, “Sea of Tranquility.”

In accordance with a press launch, “Sea of Tranquility” is a novel of artwork, time, love and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a darkish colony on the moon 5 hundred years later, unfurling a narrative of humanity throughout centuries and house.

Emily St. John Mandel is the bestselling writer of quite a few novels, together with “The Glass Resort” and “Station Eleven.” Her novel “Station Eleven,” which was a finalist for a Nationwide Guide Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, received the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Toronto Guide Award and the Morning Information Event of Books, and was tailored right into a restricted sequence for HBO.

Her earlier novel, “The Singer’s Gun,” was the 2014 winner of the Prix Mystere de la Critique in France. Her brief fiction and essays have been anthologized in quite a few collections, together with “Greatest American Thriller Tales 2013.” She is a workers author for The Tens of millions, and he or she lives in New York Metropolis along with her husband and daughter. For extra info on Emily St. John Mandel, please go to prhspeakers.com.

She’s going to focus on “Sea of Tranquility,” in addition to the craft of writing, in a dwell digital go to on Thursday, July 28 at 6:30 p.m. This system will happen through Zoom Webinar and also will be live-streamed on the Arkansas State Library’s YouTube Channel. This occasion will be free-of-charge and open to the public.

Registration info might be accessible quickly at https://www.library.arkansas.gov/packages/arkansas-center-for-the-book/if-all-arkansas-read-the-same-book/.

The Arkansas Heart for the Guide at the Arkansas State Library is a division of the Arkansas Division of Training. The “If All Arkansas Learn the Identical Guide” community-read venture is made doable partially by the Institute of Museum and Library Companies.

Copies of “Sea of Tranquility” will quickly be accessible at all public libraries all through the state.