Please mark your calendars to attend the GGC Reads launch event on Wednesday, September 25, from 2pm – 3pm in the Heritage Room of the Kaufman Library.
This year’s book, New York Time’s and Amazon best seller Educated by Tara Westover, is a memoir of the author’s life growing up in a survivalist family from Idaho. Westover had no formal schooling, but decided to apply and was accepted to Brigham Young University, awarded fellowships to Cambridge University and Harvard University, and obtained a PhD from Cambridge. Westover recounts her experiences including being totally unprepared for the educational, social, and cultural aspects of college. The book resonates with a variety of themes including what does it mean to be educated, resilience, strength-based identity, sense of loss and reconciliation, social integration, mental illness, naturalism, etc.
Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Provost T.J. Arant will kick-off this event with an introduction, followed by a reading by Dr. Perry 
Dantzler, Assistant Professor of English and CTE Faculty Affiliate of Integrative Learning. A time for a short discussion of the book (e.g., themes, feedback from those who have read it, etc.) will conclude the program along with a social time with light refreshments available. Students will be able to get a free copy of the book at the end of this event.
We look forward to seeing you there and joining together in conversation through this shared experience. See you on Wednesday, September 25!
Barbara J. (Barb) Mann, MLIS
Dean of Library Services
Daniel J. Kaufman Library and Learning Center