One Book One Community

Seven Fallen Feathers

Kitchener Public Library has selected “Seven Fallen Feathers: Racism, Death, and Hard Truths in a Northern City” by Tanya Talaga as the 2023 One Book, One Community read.

Talaga is a critically acclaimed, best-selling Ojibwe author and journalist. “Seven Fallen Feathers” is a national best-seller, won the RBC Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction and was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Non-Fiction.

One Book, One Community will culminate with an in-person author event with Tanya Talaga in the fall.

Canada's longest-running community reading program is now celebrating its 22^nd year!

One Book, One Community supports reading, celebrates books and writing, promotes Canadian writers and builds a sense of community through the shared experience of reading. OBOC encourages people in Waterloo Region to read the same book, discuss it, attend an event, and meet the author.

2022 One Book, One Community read: Son of a Trickster

Kitchener Public Library welcomed Eden Robinson in-person at Central Library to discuss her acclaimed novel Son of a Trickster on Tuesday, November 22, 2022. Robinson was in conversation with Dr. Savage Bear.