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News Tue Aug 29 2006
One Book, One Chicago Fall 2006
The Chicago Public Library officially announced today that the Fall 2006 selection of the One Book, One Chicago citywide book club is Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri. Interpreter of Maladies is a best-selling collection of short stories which won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Visit the official One Book, One Chicago website to find out more, and mark your calendar for October 9 at 6pm, when Jhumpa Lahiri is scheduled to appear at the Harold Washington Library to talk about the book.
— Alice Maggio
In this debut novel, high school English teacher Peter Ferry witnesses a fatal car accident and becomes obsessed with learning about the life of the victim, Lisa Kim.
