One Book, One Community is an annual community-wide reading event sponsored by Geneva Public Library and dedicated to creating a shared conversation through a range of related events and activities for residents of all ages. This event is made possible by generous sponsorships from Friends of Geneva Public Library and the Geneva Library Foundation.
Visit the Library to pick up your copy of our One Book, One Community book selection! Copies will be available as giveaways and for checkout starting Feb. 10, 2024 at our kickoff event. One book per person is available while supplies last.
No Two Persons
by Erica Bauermeister
That was the beauty of books, wasn’t it? They took you places you didn’t know you needed to go...
Alice has always wanted to be a writer. Her talent is innate, but her stories remain safe and detached, until a devastating event breaks her heart open, and she creates a stunning debut novel. Her words, in turn, find their way to readers, from a teenager hiding her homelessness, to a free diver pushing himself beyond endurance, an artist furious at the world around her, a bookseller in search of love, a widower rent by grief. Each one is drawn into Alice’s novel; each one discovers something different that alters their perspective, and presents new pathways forward for their lives.
Together, their stories reveal how books can affect us in the most beautiful and unexpected of ways—and how we are all more closely connected to one another than we might think.
