HOLLAND, MI (WHTC) – The Big Read Holland Area program that is coordinated through Hope College will focus on the book “The Things They Carried” during the month of November.
The Herrick District Library has partnered with Hope as well as the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District, Branch Capital Management, and several other area schools, churches. businesses and other community organizations.
This Saturday the book will be free to the first 50 people who request one at the Herrick District Library. There will be several events surrounding the book including lectures, a free film showing, events honoring veterans and many opportunities to join group discussions of the well-known novel.
The book is written by Tim O’Brien and was published in 1990. “The Things They Carried” follows a platoon of infantrymen through the jungles of Vietnam using a collection of short stories. The novel has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into several languages.
The program is developed around the theme of an entire community reading one book together and is funded through a grant to Hope College through the Big Read initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
For a schedule of events click here https://blogs.hope.edu/thebigread/
– Mary Ellen Murphy
