The Canadian Urban Libraries Council selected Dimitri Nasrallah's novel Hotline their One eRead Canada campaign throughout the month of April.

As part of the campaign, Hotline was available in both ebook and audiobook formats and in English and French, translated by Daniel Grenier, to all patrons of participating libraries. Readers were able to access the book immediately without waitlists or holds. Those with print disabilities could find Hotline in accessible formats on both the CELA and NNELS websites.

Hotline is about Muna Heddad, a widow and mother who has left behind a civil war in Lebanon and is living in Montreal in the 1980s. The only work she can find is as a hotline operator at a weight-loss centre where she fields calls from people responding to ads in magazines or on TV. These strangers have so much to say about their challenges, from marriages gone bad to personal inadequacies. Although her life in Canada is filled with invisible barriers, Muna is privy to her clients' deepest secrets.

Hotline was championed by bhangra dancer Gurdeep Pandher on Canada Reads 2023. It was also longlisted for the 2022 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

"Libraries are an essential feature of a vibrant, healthy community," Nasrallah told CBC Books in an email. "Besides providing opportunities for writers like me to interact with readers, they make reading accessible in an increasingly expensive world and provide valuable resources for children seeking engagement, students in need of study spaces and adults who would benefit from access to computers and other resources. Any community with a library at its heart is immeasurably stronger because of it".

Nasrallah is a writer from Lebanon. He is the author of novels The Bleeds, Niko and Blackbodying. Nasrallah lives in Montreal and is the fiction editor at Véhicule Press.

The One eRead Canada festivities was also marked by two events held both in-person and online.

On April 23, Nasrallah and translator Grenier were interviewed in French by journalist Evelyne Charuest at the Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec in Montreal. The English event was hosted on April 25 with CBC Ottawa's All in a Day host Alan Neal in conversation with Nasrallah at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. Audiences had the opportunity to participate in the question and answer period with the author following both events.

The events were live-streamed and recordings are available on the One eRead website.