This year's One Book One San Diego title is The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai. The book was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal, winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, winner of the Stonewall Book Award, and shortlisted for the National Book Award.
For a free copy of the book to keep, contact librarian Robin Lang or Voices of Love.
Book Summary: In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister.
Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.
Ryan Library is proud to partner with One Book One San Diego and Voices of Love.
Author Rebecca Makkai and Terry Cunningham spoke at the One Book launch event, Thursday, September 19th, at the Balboa Theatre.
(The Great Believers author, Rebecca Makkai)
(Terry Cunningham)
(Librarian Robin D. Lang)
One Book, One San Diego is our region's premier literary program, presented in partnership between KPBS and over 80 public libraries, service organizations, universities, and other educational institutions. Now in its 13th year, the purpose is to bring our community closer together through the shared experience of reading and discussing the same book.
For a calendar of events, visit kpbs.org/one-book/.
Ryan Library is participating in One Book One San Diego by partnering with Voices of Love and KPBS.
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Crisis: 40 stories revealing the personal, social, and religious pain and trauma of growing up gay in America by 
AIDS Literature and Gay Identity: The literature of loss by 
The Samaritan's Imperative: Compassionate ministry to people living with AIDS by 
Resurrecting Wounds: living in the afterlife of trauma by 
Spirit and Trauma: a theology of remaining by 
Recruiting Young Love: How Christians talk about homosexuality by 
A Time to Embrace: Same-gender relationships in religion, law, and politics by 
Pray the Gay Away: The extraordinary lives of Bible belt gays by 
The Sage Encyclopedia of LGBTQ Studies by 
Transgender, Intersex and Biblical Interpretation by 
The New Asceticism: sexuality, gender and the quest for God by 
Infectious Ideas: U.S. political responses to the AIDS crisis by Join us in the Ryan Library Reference Area on Tuesday, November 19th, 7:00pm to 8:30pm, for a panel discussion on The LGBTQIA+ Community: Trauma and the AIDS Crisis.
This list compiled by Voices of Love includes churches in San Diego that fully affirm members of the LGBTQIA+ community. A fully affirming church allows and celebrates LGBTQIA+ church participation in all ways.
Wednesday, December 11, 2019
Show starts at 7:00pm
at the Lyceum Theatre
Click on flyer below for more information.
Dr. Shelley Rambo gave the 2018 Wiley Lectures at PLNU on the topic of faith and trauma. Dr. Rambo's work furthers trauma studies within the framework of Christian Theology. Read her recent article "How Christian theology and practice are being shaped by trauma studies" (1 Nov. 2019).
For more information about the 2018 Wiley Lectures and for links to videos of the lectures, visit https://www.pointloma.edu/news/wiley-lectures-2018-dr-shelly-rambo.
