Redwood City's book for May 2006

The Redwood City library, City Council, a citizen advisory committee, and a popular vote have all put a lot of work into choosing a book for the city to read in May 2006.

The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini, will be our community book!

Here on this blog, we would like to invite community members to share their reactions to The Kite Runner.

Watch this space as well as the Redwood City and Redwood City Public Library web pages for information on upcoming events related to the book.

We hope to have the book available for sale in local bookstores and through the library for borrowing, but you can also get it here: The Kite Runner - or en español (unfortunately it's way more expensive) here: Cometas en el cielo.

Here's a brief description of the book from Khaled Hosseini's Wikipedia entry:

The Kite Runner is the story of a young boy, Amir, juggling to establish a closer rapport with his father and coping with memories of a haunting childhood event. The novel is set in Afghanistan, from the fall of the monarchy until the collapse of the Taliban regime, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. The novel was published in 2003.

I can't wait to read it - that's why I voted for it.

- Liz Henry
(Book committee member and blog diva)