2021 Teen All Iowa Reads @ DeWitt Library
DeWitt Community Library to Promote 2021 Teen All Iowa Reads Title: Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay The DeWitt Community Library invites members of the community to check out copies of and discuss the 2021 All Iowa Reads title: Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay. Multiple copies are available during the month of April. Journal and Discussion Prompts are available, too! About the 2021 Title: Patron Saints of Nothing Jay Reguero plans to spend the last semester of his senior year playing video games before heading to the University of Michigan in the fall. But when he discovers that his Filipino cousin Jun was murdered as part of President Duterte's war on drugs, and no one in the family wants to talk about what happened, Jay travels to the Philippines to find out the real story. Hoping to uncover more about Jun and the events that led to his death, Jay is forced to reckon with the many sides of his cousin before he can face the whole horrible truth -- and the part he played in it. As gripping as it is lyrical, Patron Saints of Nothing is a page-turning portrayal of the struggle to reconcile faith, family, and immigrant identity. About All Iowa Reads and the Iowa Center for the Book Established in 2003, the All Iowa Reads program from the Iowa Center for the book encourages Iowans to come together in their communities to read and talk about a single book title in the same year. The Iowa Center for the Book is a program of the State Library of Iowa with the mission to stimulate public interest in books, reading, literacy and libraries. Find out more at www.IowaCenterfortheBook.org. The State Library of Iowa strengthens Iowa libraries and information access for Iowans. www.StateLibraryofIowa.org.