One Book One Bozeman 2017 comes to life in October.  The new novel, ‘Speak’ by Louisa Hall is the featured work. ‘Speak’ features five seemingly unrelated stories that come together to  illustrate the eternal search for connection humankind has fought so hard to manage --to estranged spouses, lost friends, future readers, or a computer program that may or may not understand them. Louisa Hall explores how the chasm between computer and human--shrinking rapidly with today's technological advances--echoes the gaps that exist between ordinary people. Though each speaks from a distinct place and moment in time, all five characters share the need to express themselves while simultaneously wondering if they will ever be heard, or understood. “SPEAK may not be the first science fiction novel to counterpoise hubris, ingenuity, loss and progress. But the delicacy with which it juggles those concerns, allowing each its crystalline, utterly persuasive and transfixing moment in the air, speaks to Hall’s uncommonly deep and complex intellectual engagement with her themes.” — Katy Waldman, New York Times Book Review. About Louisa Hall: Louisa Hall grew up in Philadelphia.  After graduating from Harvard, she played squash professionally while finishing her premedical coursework and working in a research lab at the Albert Einstein Hospital.  She holds a PhD in literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she currently teaches literature and creative writing, and supervises a poetry workshop at the Austin State Psychiatric Hospital.  She is the author of the novels Speak and The Carriage House, and her poems have been published in The New Republic, Southwest Review, and other journals.   Louisa Hall will visit Bozeman October 24-25, 2017.   For more information about One Book One Bozeman’s events for ‘Speak’ by Louisa Hall, please visit  BozemanLibrary.org.  One Book One Bozeman is a community partnership between Bozeman Public Library, Country Bookshelf, and MSU Library and is funded by the BPL Foundation.