OCTC Announces Common Read Selection for Fall 2019
We Are Called to Rise by Laura McBride
Owensboro, KY (07/01/2019) — The Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading selection for the fall 2019 semester will be, We Are Called to Rise, by Laura McBride.
The novel is set in Las Vegas, Nevada and follows four divergent narrators with interwoven plot lines. The characters include CASA workers, a young veteran with PTSD, a divorcee, and an immigrant family. The central cataclysmic event in the novel was inspired by a real life event the author only knew of, but was deeply affected by, and used it as a catalyst for this fictional novel.
Laura McBride lives in Las Vegas and teaches English at the College of Southern Nevada. She graduated with a degree in American Studies from Yale University. She is the author of the novels We Are Called to Rise and In the Midnight Room. McBride did a residency at Yaddo, the artists' retreat, and published We Are Called to Rise, her first novel, at 53.
"McBride has written an urgent morality tale for our times in the form of this poignant gripping debut" -Library Journal, starred review
The author will visit OCTC on Thursday, October 3 in Blandford Lecture Hall to do a presentation and book signing. Blandford Lecture Hall is located in the Humanities building at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro. All OCTC Common Read events are free and open to the public.
We Are Called to Rise is available at the OCTC Bookstore. For more information about the OCTC Common Read program please contact tonya.northenor@kctcs.edu. To keep up with pertinent Common Read events follow facebook.com/octc.commonread
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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