Beyond the Book
In 2009, the Friends introduced a program to enhance the city’s Nashua Reads program with Beyond the Book, a presentation by the author of each year’s book. In 2021, the Nashua Reads book is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Yaa will be featured at Beyond the Book on October 17, 2021. More information will be available in August at tinyurl.com/nashuareads (scroll down to October 17), once it’s determined whether the event will be held in person or virtually.
Past authors are:
- 2020: Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
- 2019: Martha Hall Kelly, Lilac Girls
- 2018: David Grann, Killers of the Flower Moon
- 2017: Jennifer Haigh, Heat and Light
- 2016: Jenny Nordberg, The Underground Girls of Kabul
- 2015: Lily King, Euphoria
- 2014: B.A. Shapiro, The Art Forger
- 2013: Julia Glass, The Widower’s Tale
- 2012: Jane Hamilton, When Madeline Was Young
- 2011: James McBride, Song Yet Sung
- 2010: Elizabeth Berg, We Are All Welcome Here
- 2009: Chris Bohjalian, Skeletons at the Feast