"The Great State of West Florida" Book Signing with Kent Wascom
Schedule
Tue May 28 2024 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm
Location
Bookstore1Sarasota | Sarasota, FL
About this Event
Drop by, pick up a copy of The Great State of West Florida and have it signed by the author, Kent Wascom!
Register here to buy your copy of The Great State of West Florida, and come have it signed by the author, Kent Wascom, between 11 a.m. and 12 p.m. on Tuesday, May 28, in our loft.
About the Book
Rally is thirteen years old in 2026, and the long Louisiana summer looms before him like a face-melting stretch of blacktop. As the country talks civil war, he wonders about his dead father's people, the Woolsacks of West Florida, massacred by his vengeful mother and a crew of vigilantes when he was a baby. Rally lives in fear of the only survivors: his uncle, Rodney, a professional gunfighter, and his mysterious cousin, Destiny, whereabouts unknown. Yet when a far-right politician announces plans to turn the panhandle into a white Christian ethnostate, Rodney bursts into Rally's life, taking him on a journey into the wild heart of West Florida, where they join forces with the elusive Governor - part prophet, part machine - who has her own blazing vision for the sun-soaked region of suburban guerrillas, robotic warriors, and megachurch magnates.
An explosive, genre-redefining take on family, violence, and the costs of preserving a legacy, the Great State of Florida is also the tender coming-of-age story of a young man caught in the wheels of something bigger than he knows.
About the Author
KENT WASCOM is the author of The New Inheritors, Secessia, and The Blood of Heaven. He was born in New Orleans and raised in Pensacola, Florida. The Blood of Heaven was named a best book of the year by the Washington Post and NPR, was a semifinalist for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and was longlisted for the Flaherty-Dunnan Award for First Fiction. Wascom was awarded the 2012 Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival Prize for Fiction and selected as one of Gambit's 40 Under 40. He lives in Norfolk, Virginia, where he directs the Creative Writing Program at Old Dominion University.
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Where is it happening?
Bookstore1Sarasota, 117 S. Pineapple Ave., Sarasota, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 17.00
