Writers @ The Wrecking Bar | David Joy & Michael Farris Smith

Writers @ The Wrecking Bar | David Joy & Michael Farris Smith

Monday, Mar 13, 2017 7:00 PM

Location:
The Wrecking Bar Brewpub
292 Moreland Ave, Atlanta, GA 30307

Writers @ The Wrecking Bar  is a monthly fiction series at our neighborhood brewpub, The Wrecking Bar. Join us and mingle with other fans of contemporary fiction each month, check out the Wrecking Bar's own unique beer selection, wine and specially crafted cocktails,  enjoy complimentary snacks, and meet and engage with some of today's most celebrated novelists and short story writers. Each program includes authors in conversation with local book critics, audience q &a,  and a book signing. The bar opens at 7, with the author conversation starting at 7:30.

On Monday, March 13, southern storytellers David Joy and Michael Farris Smith talk about their brand new novels,  The Weight of this World and Desperation Road,  with Chuck Reece, editor-in-chief of The Bitter Southerner.

ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF THIS WORLD BY DAVID JOY
Critically acclaimed author David Joy, whose debut, Where All Light Tends to Go, was hailed as “a savagely moving novel that will likely become an important addition to the great body of Southern literature” (The Huffington Post), returns to the mountains of North Carolina with a powerful story about the inescapable weight of the past.

A combat veteran returned from war, Thad Broom can’t leave the hardened world of Afghanistan behind, nor can he forgive himself for what he saw there. His mother, April, is haunted by her own demons, a secret trauma she has carried for years. Between them is Aiden McCall, loyal to both but unable to hold them together. Connected by bonds of circumstance and duty, friendship and love, these three lives are blown apart when Aiden and Thad witness the accidental death of their drug dealer and a riot of dope and cash drops in their laps. On a meth-fueled journey to nowhere, they will either find the grit to overcome the darkness or be consumed by it.

ABOUT DESPERATION ROAD BY MICHAEL FARRIS SMITH
In the vein of Daniel Woodrell's Winter's Bone and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.

For eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him. On the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled in the middle o the road in the glow of his own headlights. With the dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save--his own or those of the woman and child. Delivered in powerful and lyrical prose, Desperation Road is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.

This event is free and open to the public. If you cannot attend the event, but would like to pre-order a signed copy, click the link below.

(David Joy)

(Michael Farris Smith)

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