Readers across Alaska will be on the same page this winter.

The Haines Borough Public Library is participating in Alaska’s first statewide “book club,” an effort to transform reading from a private activity to a communal experience.

Tlingit author Ernestine Hayes’ “Blonde Indian” was selected as the first book for “Alaska Reads,” a program launched by the Alaska Center for the Book as the project of state writing laureate Frank Soos.

Hayes will travel to…