Long Island Reads One Island- One Book Virtual 2021 Selection Award Event Hosted by the POB Library and Streamed on Crowdcast

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Adult Program

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Adults
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Event Details

Join us for the 2021 Long Island Reads Virtual Selection Award  Event honoring Brit Bennett for her novel “The Vanishing Half” on Sunday, April 11 at 2:00 pm.  Ms. Bennett will receive her award at a virtual ceremony to be shown live on Crowdcast and hosted the Plainview-Old Bethpage Public Library. 

Tickets are free of charge and will be available to the public beginning Monday, March 1 at 9:30 am.

Please click here to register! 

A recording of the event will be available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ccb3plnF5Y8

Brit Bennett teaches in the Creative Writing and Literature Program at Stony Brook University /Southhampton.  She graduated from Stanford University and earned her MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan.  Her second novel, “The Vanishing Half” was chosen as one of the ten best books of the year by the New York Times and Barnes and Nobel.  After winning a competitive bidding war, HBO will be adapting the novel into a limited series, with Ms. Bennett serving as Executive Producer.

A groundbreaking novel which has spent over 25 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller list, “The Vanishing Half” explores themes of race, family and identity.  It tells the story of identical twin sisters who grew up in the Jim Crow South before escaping at age 16 and diverging on separate life paths.