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# Santa Monica Citywide Reads picks Foer's 'Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close' for 2006
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/122005-story/
- Published: 2005-12-20T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T08:20:18.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Community, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Fiction fans are in for a treat beginning in April of 2006\. The featured book for the 2006 Santa Monica Citywide Reads is “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close,” by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Sponsored by the city of Santa Monica and the Santa Monica Public Library, citywide reads is a community reading program that invites residents and visitors to read and discuss the novel in book clubs held around the city.

“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” follows 9-year-old Oskar’s search to learn more about a key found in his deceased father’s closet after Sept. 11, 2001.

Foer published his first novel, “Everything is Illuminated,” in 2002\. It won the Guardian Book Prize and the National Jewish Book Award.

It is available in audiobook, downloadable audiobook, and will be available in paperback in March 2006.

Santa Monica Citywide Reads takes place April 3 to May 6, and features free public book discussion groups led by volunteer facilitators held in coffeehouses, bookstores, libraries and other venues. The author will appear in Santa Monica on April 23 to present a reading. Related events, such as programs on the future of fiction and America post- 9/11, are being planned. For information about Citywide Reads, call the Santa Monica Public Library at (310) 458-8600.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on December 20, 2005.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/122005.pdf?ref=smdp.com)