Reader Resources

To enhance your One Maryland One Book experience, a free Readers Guide is available. Use it to strike up conversations with friends, family and co-workers or have more formal discussions with friends.

After you’ve read the book, let us know what you think. Go to the One Maryland One Book blog and share your thoughts and experiences reading the book and talking about it with friends, family or your book club.

Useful Resources

Author Ron Suskind's website

Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal articles that led to A Hope in the Unseen
“Against All Odds: In Rough City School Top Students Struggle to Learn—and Escape,” 5/26/94
“Desperately Trying to Stay on Course,” 5/26/94
“Class Struggle: Poor, Black and Smart, An Inner-City Teen Tries to Survive MIT,” 9/22/94

Radio interview with Ron Suskind & Cedric Jennings – This American Life, Chicago Public Radio (The interview is approximately 34 minutes into this program.)
Interview with Ron Suskind & Cedric Jennings – Random House
Interview with Cedric Jennings – explorefaith.org
Interview with Cedric Jennings – The Brown Daily Herald