Ernest Thompson, The Book of Maps

Name: Ernest Thompson, The Book of Maps
Start: 2024-11-13T18:30:00-05:00
Location: Gibson's Bookstore

Schedule

Wed Nov 13 2024 at 06:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Gibson's Bookstore | Concord, NH

Gibson's Bookstore welcomes Academy and Golden Globe winner Ernest Thompson (On Golden Pond) back to share in celebrating the paperback release of his debut novel, The Book of Maps!
In the summer of 2002, Brendan Tibbet, a filmmaker whose luck has run low, takes his ten-year-old son Brenlyn on a raucous road trip across America. Following a 1930s travel guide Brendan purchased at a yard sale, the two-week trek from LA to New Hampshire covers 16 states, hitting the iconic stops along the way, Yosemite, the Great Salt Lake, Yellowstone and Mt. Rushmore and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, replete with wild exploits both hilarious and perilous, but it's the interior journey that is enlightening, deeply poignant and life-changing.
Ernest Thompson's debut novel is a skillful, magical piece of 20th-century fin de si cle writing depicting a United States that, even in the aftermath of 9-11, seems almost innocent contrasted to the horrors and divisions, racism and rage challenging us now. The Book of Maps, with its powerful father-son relationship and one man's relentless albeit unintentional quest to evolve into the better angel we all aspire to be, will capture the imagination of readers and leave them wanting to relive this mad, irresistibly moving, ridiculously funny, reflective and inspiring cross-country odyssey again and again.
Can't make this event? Order the book through the Gibson's Bookstore website and we'll have it signed at the event! Please put you signing/personalization requests in the order comments at checkout.