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February 7, 2018
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Community Reading
Project Begins
‘Exit West’ to spark
conversations on
humanity
Multnomah County Library’s
Everybody Reads 2018, the li-
brary’s 16th annual community
reading project, kicked off this
month with the distribution of
thousands of copies of Moshin
Hamid’s Exit West.
Readers and students from
across the county will engage with
the ideas and themes – safety, mi-
gration, displacement, conflict –
presented in the book. Nearly 50
Everybody Reads discussions and
related programs will take place
at libraries and elsewhere in the
community.
Thanks to The Library Founda-
tion, 5,750 copies of Exit West are
C ontinueD on P age 15
Hohsin Hamid a Pakistani
writer who explores conditions
of human displacement and
migration in his 2017 novel ‘Exit
West,’ is this year’s featured
book and author for Multnomah
County Library’s ‘Everybody
Reads’ program.