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NEWS: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 5, 2003
Kansas City
next United We Read begins today
In March, a committee of local librarians, educators, readers, book discussion group members, and a representative from a bookstore met to discuss and choose—from a list of nineteen book titles—one book to encourage metro-area residents to read and dicuss this fall. The book title was announced today in a press conference at the Lyric Theatre. The Year the Colored Sisters Came to Town by Jacqueline Guidry, of Kansas City, Missouri, is the 2003 United We Read program selection.
The novel, set in the Deep South during the fifties, explores race relations and bigotry. The “Colored Sistersâ€