One Book, One Frenchtown: The Book of (More) Delights with Ross Gay

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Join us for the first-ever One Book, One Frenchtown community conversation on The Book of (More) Delights with best-selling author, poet, and Frenchtown friend Ross Gay.

Modeled after “One Read” programs across the world, One Book, One Frenchtown aims to gather neighbors to read, talk about, and engage with the same book, promoting critical conversations, community building, and literacy through fun and engaging town-wide events. The Book of (More) Delights, whose author has ties to Frenchtown and is an expert on joy, is the perfect book to launch the initiative.

The author of the New York Times bestselling The Book of Delights is back with a second book cataloging a new year of his daily delights. In this spirited second collection of short, lyrical, genre-defying essays, again written daily over a year, one of America’s most original and observant voices celebrates the ordinary, helping us see our extraordinary world anew. Delights is a record of the small wonders we so often overlook in our busy lives.

In essays that can be at once intimate and political, Gay shows us why he has made the subject of Black joy his own. Even as he practices delight, he doesn’t shy away from complexities of racism in America or the ecological and psychic violence of our consumer culture or the loss of those he loves. More than anything else, though, Gay reveals the beauty of the natural world — the garden, the orchard, the flowers emerging from cracks in the sidewalk, the elegant movements of geese tending to their goslings, and the trillion mysteries of this glorious earth.

The Book of (More) Delights is on sale at the Frenchtown Bookshop, available at a 15 percent discount for those participating in One Book, One Frenchtown. To ensure community members have access, a limited number of free copies will be available to borrow at ArtYard. Local businesses are invited to sponsor additional free copies by contacting the Frenchtown Bookshop.

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