Arts & Entertainment

Wayland Reads Picks 'The Opposite of Loneliness' as Community Book

The Wayland Reads planning people have picked a book by a Wayland author who passed away shortly after the work was published.

The planning of “Wayland Reads 2015” is underway, and the committee has announced this year’s pick.

“The Opposite of Loneliness” by Marina Keegan is this year’s selection. Keegan, from Wayland, died in a car accident days after graduating from Yale.

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The book will be available April 8.

“Once again we will be discovering what happens in our town when many of us read the same book and then get together to talk about it.”

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From the “Opposite of Loneliness” Facebook page: “Her essay, ‘The Opposite of Loneliness,’ was Marina’s final message to her college classmates, distributed in a special edition of the Yale Daily News at the 201 Commencement exercises. After her death in a car accident five days after she graduated magna cum laude, her words of inspiration resounded around the globe, receiving 1.4 million hits in 98 countries and transforming her into an icon for her generation.”

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