For information contact:
Susan Burton, (816) 521-7267 or
Marsha Bennett (913) 261-2319
Web site:Â http://www.kcmlin.org/UnitedWeRead/2004/introduction.htm
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Third year for popular community-wide reading program
Next United We Read begins today
         In January, a committee of local librarians, educators, readers, book discussion group members, and book store representatives met to discuss and choose – from a list of ten book titles – one book to encourage metro-area residents to read and discuss this fall. The book title for the 2004 United We Read project is the Nebula Award-winning novel The Speed of Dark by Elizabeth Moon.
           Author Elizabeth Moon depicts a time in the not-to-distant future when genetic conditions like autism can be eliminated before a child is born. The novel tells the story of the last generation of high-functioning autists who have found themselves pressured by their employer, a pharmaceutical company, to participate in a risky surgical experiment that may make them “normal.â€