Drumroll, please. Fairfield Town Librarian Karen Ronald announced the library’s official selection for 2011’s “One Book, One Town” program Wednesday morning at the Main Library. With much fanfare, Ronald told the crowd that the official selection is Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Eating Animals.”
“I will warn you, it is a mature subject matter,” Ronald said. “But it’s something near and dear to our hearts in Fairfield, with the local organic farms starting up.”
Foer’s book takes an in-depth look at the meat industry. But Branch Librarians Mary Coe stressed that it’s not an advertisement for vegetarianism. Rather, it’s “about where our food comes from.” Teen librarian Nicole Scherer added that it’s also a personal story about how Foer deals with his research in relation to the upcoming birth of his son.
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