An Evening with W. Edward Crockett

An Evening with W. Edward Crockett

Come join us for a special evening with the one and only W. Edward Crockett at Books-A-Million. Get ready for an engaging conversation and Q+A session, followed by a book signing! Ed will be signing copies of his book The Ghosts of Walter Crockett - a memoir about his life.

Attendees must purchase a copy of the book at the store in order to attend the event.

About the book...

There was a lot of pain on Munjoy Hill, a close-knit working-class neighborhood of immigrants that also saw its share of drugs, alcohol, poverty, and violence in the 1960s and 1970s. A young Ed Crockett, at home with seven siblings, an ailing and broke mother, and more than a dozen stray animals, was caught in the middle of it all and looking for a way out. Crockett's memoir is an often bittersweet story that captures the joys of youth and love of family set against a backdrop of poverty, uncertainty, and the ever-present spectre of an alcoholic and often homeless father whose flaws, life choices, and fate haunt a young man and tear at his confidence even as a adult. Can he honor his mother's pleadings to don't be like your father and rise above the family's cycle of poverty and alcoholism? With love, compassion, and the cleared-eyed benefit of time, Crockett writes of his siblings, his neighborhood, the eccentric wisdom of his mother, and life in a small city in the years before it emerged as one of the hippest places in America.

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