Kick off this year’s One Book, One Community (OBOC) by getting your copy of The Bohemians by Jasmin Darznik. In this novel of the glittering and gritty Jazz Age, a young aspiring photographer named Dorothea Lange arrives in San Francisco in 1918. As a newcomer— and a naïve one at that—Dorothea is grateful for the fast friendship of Caroline Lee, a vivacious, straighttalking Chinese American with a complicated past, who introduces Dorothea to Monkey Block, an artists’ colony and the bohemian heart of the city. Dazzled by Caroline and her friends, Dorothea is catapulted into a heady new world of freedom, art and politics. She also falls in love with the brilliant but troubled painter Maynard Dixon. As Dorothea sheds her innocence, her purpose is awakened and she grows into the artist whose iconic Depression-era “Migrant Mother” photograph broke the hearts and opened the eyes of a nation. 

Register for OBOC programs and enjoy music and refreshments. Free copies of the book will be distributed while supplies last. OBOC is a partnership with Cook Memorial Library and Vernon Area Library.