Local Author Talk with Jeff Govoni: Four Jarves Street

Titcomb's Bookshop welcomes local author Jeff Govoni to discuss his book Four Jarves Street in conversation with local historian Bob King on Thursday, June 18th at 6:30 PM. Please note that this event will now be held at the Nye Museum's Grange Hall at 91 Old County Road in East Sandwich.

Books will be for sale at the event, and Govoni will sign them after his presentation. Those who are unable to attend may order a signed copy of the book here.

Free RSVP is requested and can be completed on this page or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331.

ABOUT THE BOOK

It's May 1987, and Jeff, freshly graduated from college, is back in Four Jarves Street, the rambling, age-worn home where four generations of his family have lived, back in Sandwich, the tiny Yankee hamlet at the bottom of Cape Cod Bay that owed its existence to being on the road to somewhere else. It's a temporary stop — a month tops — and he'll be off, far from the decay he see all around him. But then summer comes, and the last ember that still burns for his hometown is reignited, transporting him into his past. It's then that Jeff realizes leaving Four Jarves Street won't be as easy as driving over the Sagamore Bridge. First he'll have to free himself from the myths and memories that keep him captured there. It won't be easy.

Often hilarious and sometimes poignant, Four Jarves Street is more than a gossamer recollection of a 1970s Cape Cod childhood. It's an elegy for a coastal New England that has been cleansed from our collective memory and our living landscape. Four Jarves Street is also a meditation on family and belonging, on lack and loss, and on the myths that form our first identity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jeff Govoni splits his time between Sandwich, Massachusetts, and Burlington, Vermont. Four Jarves Street is his first extended work. Before Four Jarves Street, Jeff wrote a series of essays that he published in an email newsletter called The Town Neck News. Jeff grew up in Sandwich and lived at 4 Jarves Street, where three generations of Govonis had lived before him. After graduating from college and leaving Sandwich, Jeff pursued a business career and built a family along with his wife, the artist Lisa Lillibridge. But Sandwich and writing were always at the back of his mind. A childhood fantasy of his was having a book sold on the shelves of Titcomb's Bookshop.

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