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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:Ĭopper Canyon Press and The Wylie Agency, LLC: “To Paula in Late Spring” from The Shadow of Sirius by W. RANDOM HOUSE and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC. 25.Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. The library’s BYOBook discussion group will be discussing the book in a small-group setting on Friday, Oct. Registration is encouraged, but not required, via Eventbrite. Help the library bring this reflective and transformative work into our community in a real way by joining us at the on Nov. Kuo’s partnership with the UI Center for Human Rights will bring her to the area with multiple events starting Oct. And that’s when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again.Ī relentlessly honest and engrossing memoir, Reading with Patrick is, as novelist Claire Messud says, “a defining story for our times, and, abidingly, a testament to the power of language and of books.”
Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before.
The memoir tells of a time when, as a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. Partnering with One Community, One Book, the North Liberty Community Library will host Michelle Kuo for visit and discussion of her memoir Reading with Patrick.
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