The Big Read--the National Endowment for the Arts' program to help bring books to communities--has added 13 new titles to its library, including "The Latehomecomer," the first memoir by St. Paul Hmong writer Kao Kalia Yang, "How We Became Human," by Native American writer Joy Harjo, and "Citizen," a prize-winning book about race in America by Claudia Rankine and published by Graywolf Press.
The library list now contains 28 titles, including books by Louise Erdrich and Tim O'Brien.
More than 4 million Americans have taken part in Big Read events, where a community reads and discusses a single book. Communities can apply for NEA grants, which range between $5,000 and $20,000; more than 1,200 communities have received such grants in the past ten years.
For more information on the Big Read titles, go here: NEA.
