Today!!! Author Visit: Justin St. Germain Thursday March 13th Arizona Western College(Frances Morris Boardroom in 3C Building) 12:15 p.m. Author Reception (Q & A and Signing) 6 p.m. Author Reading and Book Signing Free and open to the Public In the tradition of Tobias Wolff, James Ellroy, and Mary Karr, a brave and unforgettable memoir of a mother-son relationship that is also an unflinching account of a murder and its aftermath. Tombstone, Arizona, September 2001. Debbie St. Germain’s killing in her remote trailer, apparently at the hands of her fifth husband, is a passing curiosity in the local community. But for her twenty- year-old son, Justin St. Germain, the tragedy marks the line that separates his world into before and after. Years later, he is pulled back to the desert landscape of his childhood on a search to make sense of the unfathomable. What made his mother, an ex-army paratrooper, the type of woman who would stand up to any man except the men she was in love with? What led her to move from place to place until finally she found herself in a desperate and deteriorating situation, living on an isolated patch of land with an unstable ex-cop? Justin decides to confront people from his past and delves into the police records in an attempt to make sense pf his mother’s life and death. All the while he tries to be the type of man she would have wanted him to be. Son of a Gun: A Memoir Named a Best Book of 2013 by Amazon, Amazon.ca, Library Journal, BookPage, Salon, and Pima County Public Library; a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection; The Arizona Republic/Changing Hands Bookstore Book of the Month for September; an Oprah Book of the Week; The New York Times Book Review Editors Choice “Gritty, enthralling … St. Germain has created a work of austere, luminous beauty … by the end of the book, you know his mother, even though you never met her. And like the author, you will mourn her forever. –Julia Keller, NPR “A visceral, compelling portrait of [St. Germains] mother and the violent culture that claimed her. –Entertainment Weekly “Impossible to put down … a raw, compelling read that stays with you beyond the last page. –GQ Try not to marvel at the bare-knuckle prose, try not to get your heart torn to pieces, try not to feel lost in the scabby, sand-scoured western landscape, try not to fall in love with one of the most beautifully raw, brutally honest memoirs I’ve read—I dare you. -Benjamin Percy, author of Red Moon, The Wilding, and Refresh, Refresh Sponsored by The Writing School of Arizona Western College. For more information contact Ric Jahna at 314-9558 or email at [email protected].
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