Acknowledgements

We want to thank our Honorary Chair, Dr. Sheenu Srinivasan, primary founder of the Connecticut Valley Hindu Temple Society in Middletown, CT.

We also want to acknowledge our founding partners, Greater Hartford Literacy Council and the Greater Hartford Arts Council.

And of course thank you to the members of the selection committee for their generous contribution of time and their thoughtful input into the selection of the One Book for Greater Hartford 2008.

Carl Guerriere, Greater Hartford Literacy Council

Ken Kahn, Greater Hartford Arts Council

Craig Kennedy, Borders Bookstore

Rev. Gary Miller, Asylum Hill Congregational Church

Ravi Shankar, Poet-in-Residence, Central Connecticut State University

Doris Sugarman, The Connecticut Forum

Virginia Vocelli, Avon Public Library

Dominique Meyers, Teen One Book representative