A conversation with Jess Walter

Join us at our Strongsville Branch for a conversation with Jess Walter, author of "So Far Gone."
Register: attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/15834517
Registration for this event is FREE. VIP tickets are also available for purchase.
Each VIP ticket ($20 + fees) includes:
A paperback copy of So Far Gone

VIP seating at the event

Signing line priority

A donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation
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Walter is the author of eight novels, including the bestsellers "So Far Gone," "The Cold Millions," and "Beautiful Ruins," the National Book Award Finalist "The Zero," and "Citizen Vince," winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction, collected in "The Angel of Rome" and "We Live in Water," has won the O. Henry Prize, the Pushcart Prize and appeared three times in Best American Short Stories. As a reporter, he was a finalist for the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of Ruby Ridge. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.
In "So Far Gone," Rhys Kinnick has gone off the grid. At Thanksgiving a few years back, a fed-up Rhys punched his conspiracy-theorist son-in-law in the mouth, chucked his smartphone out a car window and fled for a cabin in the woods, with no one around except a pack of hungry raccoons.
Now Kinnick’s old life is about to land right back on his crumbling doorstep. Can this failed husband and father, a man with no internet and a car that barely runs, reemerge into a broken world to track down his missing daughter and save his sweet, precocious grandchildren from the members of a dangerous militia?
With the help of his caustic ex-girlfriend, a bipolar retired detective, and his only friend (who happens to be furious with him), Kinnick heads off on a wild journey through cultural lunacy and the rubble of a life he thought he’d left behind. So Far Gone is a rollicking, razor-sharp, and moving road trip through a fractured nation, from a writer who has been called “a genius of the modern American moment” (Philadelphia Inquirer).