The Big Read comes to Spokane

A celebration of the beloved American classic, To Kill a Mockingbird, begins this month and continues through the middle of March at area libraries, universities and community venues. I’ve been recording the book this past month to be broadcast on the Bookshelf, a program of KPBX radio in Spokane.  This will start at 6:30 on Monday, February 1 and continue every Monday through Thursday for about 4 weeks.  While many readers love this book for its story of a Southern lawyer defending a Negro man falsely accused of rape, I love it for its portrait of a small Alabama town during the Great Depression and the authentically youthful voice of the narrator, Scout.  The Big Read is sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts and The Spokane City and County Library Systems.