Area Libraries Celebrate Annual One Maryland One Book Program – The Southern Maryland Chronicle

One Maryland One Guide, Maryland’s statewide studying venture, is underway all through Southern Maryland by way of October. The initiative is designed to encourage everybody within the state to learn and talk about one ebook chosen by the tutorial nonprofit Maryland Humanities. This yr’s choice, “What’s Mine and Yours” by Naima Coster, exemplifies the 2022 theme of New Beginnings.

One Maryland One Guide goals to carry collectively numerous individuals in communities throughout the state by way of the shared expertise of studying the identical ebook and taking part in book-centered discussions and different associated applications.

“What’s Mine and Yours” is a multigenerational saga that includes two North Carolina households. They collide in methods neither is ready for when Black college students from the east facet of the county are built-in into the predominantly white colleges on the west facet. Readers will observe these households over a long time as they break aside and are available again collectively. The work is a sweeping novel of legacy, id, the American household—and the way race impacts even our most intimate relationships.

As a part of the One Maryland One Guide program, creator Naima Coster will communicate on the School of Southern Maryland La Plata Campus Fantastic Arts Heart throughout a free public occasion on Tuesday, October 4, at 11 a.m. on the School of Southern Maryland La Plata Campus Fantastic Arts Heart. 

This program will encompass 30-40 minutes of interview-style dialogue with Ashley Teagle, CEO of the Southern Maryland Regional Library Affiliation, adopted by 15-20 minutes of viewers Q&A. Naima Coster will signal books for roughly an hour after she speaks. Copies of “What’s Mine & Yours” shall be out there at this occasion. 

This system is organized by Maryland Humanities and co-sponsored by One Maryland One Guide and Charles County Public Library in partnership with Calvert Library, St. Mary’s County Library, Southern Maryland Regional Library Affiliation, and the School of Southern Maryland.

Coster is the “New York Occasions” bestselling creator of two novels and a recipient of the Nationwide Guide Basis’s 5 Below 35 honor. Her first novel, “Halsey Road,” was a finalist for the Kirkus Prize for Fiction and a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. Coster’s tales and essays have appeared within the “New York Occasions,” “Elle,” “Time,” “Kweli,” “The Reduce,” “The Sunday Occasions,” “Catapult,” “The Paris Overview Each day,” amongst different publications, and in quite a few anthologies. She graduated from Yale College, Fordham College, and the Columbia College Faculty of the Arts, incomes her MFA. She has taught writing for over a decade in neighborhood settings, youth applications, and universities. She at the moment teaches within the low-residency MFA program at Antioch College in L.A. She is a 2022 mentor for the Periplus Collective.

Copies of “What’s Mine and Yours” can be found at any public library in Southern Maryland. The ebook will also be downloaded as a free e-book from COSMOS’s on-line catalog.

The three Southern Maryland public library programs supply varied applications across the ebook’s themes, together with a number of ebook discussions all through the area. All One Maryland One Guide occasions are free. For extra details about program alternatives, go to your native library: Calvert Library, Charles County Public Library, and St. Mary’s County Library.

For a listing of One Maryland One Guide occasions all through the whole state, go to the Maryland Humanities web site.