One Book One Minnesota Program announces its next title: Where We Come From
Great River Regional Library is participating in the thirteenth chapter of One Book | One Minnesota. This statewide book club invites Minnesotans of all ages to read a common title and come together virtually to enjoy, reflect, and discuss. The title for the program is Where We Come From by Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney & John Coy. Presented in partnership with State Library Services, a division of the Minnesota Department of Education, the program aims to bring Minnesotans together and highlight the role of libraries as community connectors.
From March 10 through May 5, Minnesotans will be invited to read the featured book selection, access reading guides, and participate in virtual book club discussions through their local libraries.
Readers can access the ebook for free on EBooks Minnesota for eight weeks. Click here to start reading the ebook. (There is no wait time or limit! Start reading now!)
In addition to the digital format, hard copies of the book will be available in the Great River Regional Library catalog. Request your copy from the catalog.
Reading with your book club? Reading and discussion guides are available to use on the One Book One Minnesota website.
All Minnesotans are invited to participate in a statewide discussion with the author of the book:
Virtual Author Conversation
Tuesday, April 29 at 10:00 a.m.
Conversation with Diane Wilson, Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, & John Coy
Free and open to the public | Register for free
About Where We Come From
In this unique collaboration, four authors lyrically explore where they each come from – literally and metaphorically – as well as what unites all of us as humans. Richly layered illustrations connect past and present, making for an accessible and visually striking look at history, family, and identity.
About the Authors
Diane Wilson is an award-winning writer, speaker, and editor. Her work includes Spirit Car: Journey to a Dakota Past and The Seed Keeper, both of which won the Minnesota Book Award, and Beloved Child: A Dakota Way of Life. Her essays have been featured in many publications, including We Are Meant to Rise; Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations; and A Good Time for the Truth. Wilson is a Mdewakanton descendent, enrolled on the Rosebud Reservation.
신 선 영 Sun Yung Shin is a Korean American poet, fiction writer, nonfiction writer, editor, and educator. Her books include four collections of poetry: The Wet Hex; Unbearable Splendor, a Minnesota Book Award winner; Rough, and Savage; and Skirt Full of Black, Asian American Literary Award winner. Her poetry has been supported with fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Residency, the Archibald Bush Foundation, the McKnight Foundation, and the Minnesota State Arts Board. She lives in Minneapolis near Minnehaha Creek.
Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color, Dream Country, and The Girl I Am, Was, and Will Never Be, young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College, where she teaches writing. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, she lives in Minneapolis with her family.
John Coy is the author of young adult novels, the 4 for 4 middle-grade series, and nonfiction and fiction picture books including Hoop Genius, Game Changer, Their Great Gift, Dads, and If We Were Gone. He has received numerous awards for his work including a Marion Vannett Ridgway Award, a Charlotte Zolotow Honor, a Bank Street College Best Book of the Year, and the Burr/Warzalla Award for Distinguished Achievement in Children's Literature. Coy lives by the Mississippi River in Minneapolis..
About One Book | One Minnesota
One Book | One Minnesota is presented by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, as the Minnesota Center for the Book, in partnership with State Library Services and sponsored by SPIRE Credit Union. Program partners also include the Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators; Mackin VIA; Minitex; the Minnesota Department of Education; and the University of Minnesota Press. This program is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund, as well as through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Links to resources and more information can be found at thefriends.org/onebook.
