HOLLAND, MI (WHTC-AM/FM, Apr. 20, 2022) –Hope College’s NEA Big Read Lakeshore and the Eugene Peterson Center for Christian Imagination and Western Theological Seminary are collaborating to bring award winning fiction author Leif Enger to Holland.
“An Evening with Leif Enger” is coming up Tuesday evening, April 26 at 7 o’clock in Graves Hall’s Winants Auditorium on the Hope College campus. The event will include a presentation by Enger and a question and answer opportunity, as well as hors d’oeuvre to enjoy.
Leif Enger grew up in Osakis, Minnesota and currently resides in Duluth, Minnesota with his wife, Robin. He began his career as a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio before writing his bestselling debut novel Peace Like a River. The novel won the Booksense Award for Fiction and was also named as one of the Year’s Best Books by Time Magazine and the LA Times.
Enger’s second novel, So Brave, Young, and Handsome, was also a national bestseller. It won the High Plains Book Award for Fiction and was a Midwest Booksellers Honor Book. He recently published Virgil Wander which has also received national recognition.
Hope College’s NEA Big Read Lakeshore program began in 2014 with the goal to create and foster a culture where reading matters. By bringing the Lakeshore community together around a common book, Big Read Lakeshore uses the shared experience of reading, discussing and exploring the themes of the book as a springboard to listen to and learn from each other.
The NEA Big Read Lakeshore program is made possible in part by a grant from the NEA Big Read, a program of the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.
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