Everybody Reads season starts now and, this year, we’re reading the debut novel of Port Townsend author JoAnne Tompkins. An honest look at the complexities and power of small-town coastal life, her book What Comes After is a compassionate page-turner that we hope you will love. So mark your calendars and come meet JoAnne Tompkins at the Colfax Library on Tuesday, November 7 at 12:00pm! In the meantime, be sure to request a copy of her novel What Comes After by browsing all available formats in our catalogue here.

An incredible opportunity for readers and residents of all sorts, this event is made possible by the team at Everybody Reads and by grant organizations like Washington State Library, Idaho Humanities Council, Humanities Washington, and the Institute for Museums and Library Services. A regional program, Everybody Reads was founded in 2000 with the aim to build shared reading experience around a single book and spark discussion and community engagement across the Palouse and the Lewis-Clark Valley. We hope you will join in!