Friday, September 12 at 7 PM
Dog-Eared Books
203 Main Street, Ames

Jess Walter has been a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. His novel, Beautiful Ruins, was a #1 New York Times Bestseller, and remains, to this day, one of the best books our co-owners have ever read. His latest endeavor, So Far Gone, is brilliant – it offers timely social commentary, humor, and heart. It’s a thoroughly enjoyable read, and we count it among the very best published this year.

It is our great pleasure to give you the opportunity to meet Jess Walter! Join us for a Cocktails & Convos event on Friday, September 12, at 7 PM. The evening will feature a conversation with the author, a curated cocktail available for purchase, and the opportunity to have your book personalized and have a photo taken with the author. 

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About So Far Gone:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Ruins—and in the propulsive spirit of Charles Portis’ True Grit—comes a hilarious, empathetic, and brilliantly provocative adventure through life in modern America, about a reclusive journalist forced back into the world to rescue his kidnapped grandchildren.

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).