Alec Clayton will read a selection from his latest novel, The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson at the Olympia Friends Meetinghouse (Quakers), 3201 Boston Harbor Road NE, Olympia, on Tuesday, March 3, starting at 6:30 p.m.
Following the reading, Alec will lead a discussion/question and answer and book signing. Copies of some of his other books will also be there.
The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson is Alec’s 12th novel. The noveltraces the lives of Pegleg’s many descendants, beginning with his grandson Hairless Harlan Johnson, whose wife was mauled by a circus tiger.
After migrating from the swamplands of South Louisiana to Seattle and Olympia, Washington, Harlan’s many children and grandchildren get together every summer at a resort on Orcas Island where all hell breaks loose as brothers and sisters learn anew how to love one another despite it all.
Twenty-five percent of all book sales there will be donated to Friends Ugandan Skills Training Fund (FUST), a program of the Olympia Friends that helps safely shelter and train unskilled LGBTQI folks and provide literacy and vocational/educational skills training which will allow them to remain in Uganda and find jobs that will allow them to be self-supporting.
Alec is the editor of Oly Arts magazine. He has written about the arts in the South Sound region for more than thirty years with such publications as The News Tribune, The Weekly Volcano, The Olympian and others.
Please join us as Alec reads from and talks about his latest novel. Co-managers of FUST will be there to answer questions.
WHAT: The Descendants of the Pirate Pegleg Josiah Johnson reading and book discussion
WHEN: Tuesday, March 3, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE: Olympia Friends Meetinghouse, 3201 Boston Harbor Road NE, Olympia.
This is an in-person only event.
MORE INFORMATION:
https://mudflatpress.com/the-descendants-of-the-pirate-pegleg-josiah-johnson/
https://friendsugandanskillstraining.org/