One Book One New Orleans

One Book, One New Orleans is a community wide reading program of the Young Leadership Council and the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans.  One Book has a two part mission: we are a campaign for literacy and community.

During a reading period every year, One Book encourages residents of the Greater New Orleans Area age 16 years and older to engage in the common endeavor of reading the same book at the same time. Our aim is that through this shared experience, residents from the different communities of Greater New Orleans come together and embrace their similarities by reading, discussing, and attending events relating to the same book. 

Our past selections have been:

• A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines in Spring 2004
• Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America by John M. Barry in Spring 2005
• Coming Out the Door for the Ninth Ward by Nine Times Social and Pleasure Club in Fall 2007 

One Book, One New Orleans is proud to announce that its 2008 community-wide reading selection is City of Refuge by Tom Piazza!

City of Refuge is the fictional story of two New Orleans families, one black and one white, set in the days of Katrina and the months following. Read how their struggles, recovery, and resilience reflect the deep human understanding that we share now as New Orleanians.

Go to the One Book website to find out how you can get involved, read the book and be a part of our cultural community!

www.onebookoneneworleans.com

The Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans has also created a Teacher and Tutor Guide to the book to aid literacy providers in making the novel more accessible to their adult learners.