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• Chattahoochee Valley Libraries

  NEA Big Read
  
  FY2024
  Georgia

  The Chattahoochee Valley Libraries join forces with other organizations and our community to celebrate and examine WHERE WE LIVE as this year’s NEA BIG READ celebration. Using Atlanta author Tayari Jones’ celebrated "Silver Sparrow" as our guide, we’ll examine how our time, place, and people have inspired – and can inspire –creative and historical endeavors both great and small.

• Athens-Clarke County Library

  NEA Big Read
  
  FY2024
  Georgia

  "Where we live" in Athens, Georgia is fluid, changing with each new resident. Every community member's origins inform where we, as a city, are going. Our focus is on "The People," our ancestors and lineage and the places we all call "home." Through shared reading of Gyasi's novel, Homegoing, we explore our city's African American history and culture, connecting to present-day diversity.

• 7 Stages

  NEA Big Read
  
  FY2024
  Georgia

  Collaborating with DeKalb Co. Public Library, GA Center for the Book, and a diverse network of community partners, 7 Stages will organize and promote a series of literary and artistic outreach events inspired by Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown. An estimated 2,000 community members in metro Atlanta will participate in the shared reading and artistic response experience from 10/2024 - 5/2025.