Ocean House Author Series: Deborah Goodrich Royce and Jeffrey Blount

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Join us as Ocean House owner and author, Deborah Goodrich Royce moderates a conversation with our featured author. This week, award-winning author Jeffrey Blount will be discussing (and signing) his latest novel: Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way. Refreshments will be served, including wine and light bites!

Please note, tickets purchased for this event are non-refundable. A copy of the book, from Bank Square Books, is included in the cost of the ticket.

About Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way:

James Henry Ferguson doesn’t belong here.

After a highly publicized fall from grace, James attempts to flee from the chaos in his life. He ends up in a community he had never heard of before, one that has been neglected and ignored by everyone in rural Ham, Mississippi. A place of abject poverty, the neighborhood is commonly referred to as “Around the Way.”

Within a place forgotten by the rest of the world, politics can be a dangerous game. When a troubling discovery is made, the entire neighborhood is rocked to its core and James is forced to confront his own past in order to help the community have a future. He will have to find the strength to fight for the neighbors he once disregarded and avert a heart-breaking disaster.

A self-identified failure is forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve every problem. Full of never-ending twists and turns, no one can prepare themselves for the surprises in store. Mr. Jimmy From Around the Way is a story about failure, self-discovery, empowerment, and the possibility of redemption.