

This Bridge Will Not Be Gray
Author: Dave Eggers
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/20/2018
Author: Dave Eggers
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 16 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 04/20/2018
Dave Eggers is the bestselling author of seven books, including A Hologram for the King, a finalist for the National Book Award; Zeitoun, winner of the American Book Award and Dayton Literary Peace Prize; and What Is the What, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and won France’s Prix Medici. That book, about Valentino Achak Deng, a survivor of the civil war in Sudan, gave birth to the Valentino Achak Deng Foundation, which operates a secondary school in South Sudan run by Mr. Deng. Eggers is the founder and editor of McSweeney’s, an independent publishing house based in San Francisco that produces a quarterly journal, a monthly magazine, The Believer:, a quarterly DVD of short films and documentaries, Wholphin; and an oral history series, Voice of Witness. In 2002, with Nínive Calegari he cofounded 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center for youth in the Mission District of San Francisco. Local communities have since opened sister 826 centers in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Ann Arbor, Seattle, Boston, and Washington, D.C. Eggers is also the founder of ScholarMatch, a program that matches donors with students needing funds for college tuition. A native of Chicago, Eggers now lives in Northern California with his wife and two children.
Dave Eggers wrote a kids' book! Well, not exactly - he wrote an essay that they illustrated and shelved with the kids' books. 2.5 stars. A real "Why? Why not?" experience.......more
I guess I have to categorize this as a kid's book. It looks like one with the simple cutout art and poster colors. And it's not told on a simple level. But it doesn't read like a kid book, much. Too much talk, too many words, and kind of meandering prose. The point of the books s that people worked......more