About OMOB 2008

The OMOB 2008 selection, A Hope in the Unseen by Ron Suskind, is rich and multilayered. The book focuses on the odyssey of Cedric Jennings and his personal and academic struggles as he journeys from Washington D.C.'s worst public high school to Brown University. It was selected not only because it offered the opportunity to discuss important and highly relevant topics such as education and socioeconomics, but also because it presented the opportunity to talk about race and race relations in Maryland and in America.