Three Cups of Tea Chosen for One Book Sacramento Community Read
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote . . . One School at a Time is the book selected for the Sacramento Public Library’s fourth-annual One Book Sacramento: Connecting Our Communities. Throughout October, community members will be encouraged to attend local library book club discussions, writers’ workshops, programs featuring local authors, and other interesting events whose themes are based on the book.
Greg Mortenson, along with acclaimed journalist David Oliver Relin, recount the unlikely journey that led Mortenson from a failed attempt to climb Pakistan’s K2, the world’s second highest mountain, to successfully building schools in some of the most remote regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan. By replacing guns with pencils and rhetoric with reading, Mortenson combines his unique background with his intimate knowledge of the third-world to fight terrorism with books, not bombs, and successfully bring education and hope to remote villages in central Asia. Three Cups of Tea is at once an unforgettable adventure and the inspiring true story of how one man really is changing the world—one school at a time.
Sacramento Public Library Director Anne Marie Gold says, “Three Cups of Tea is a most timely read for our community, as Pakistan and Afghanistan are in the world’s current focus. It is an inspiring story of one person’s determination to make a difference in one corner of our world. One Book Sacramento is about neighbor meeting neighbor, reading and talking about the book, enjoying a variety of programs, and sharing ideas and experiences.”
Read The Sacramento Bee book reviewer Al Pierleoni’s March 2 column about Three Cups of Tea.