Jess Walter VIP Ticket

Schedule

Tue Jun 09 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Strongsville Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library | Strongsville, OH

VIP TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.
About this Event

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

About the Author:

Jess 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.


About the Book:

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).


FAQs

Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.

For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations for individuals with hearing, visual or mobility impairments, please email [email protected].

All ticket purchases are non-refundable. If you have purchased a ticket and can no longer attend, email [email protected] by the event date to arrange book pickup at the CCPL branch of your choice.

Questions? Email us at [email protected].

Where is it happening?

Strongsville Branch of Cuyahoga County Public Library, 18700 Westwood Drive, Strongsville, United States
Tickets

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