Book signing event to benefit Wild Horse Children's Theater Kyra Conway Scholarship Fund
Hometown author Jonathon Josten has published his first novel, "Poppies and White Elephants" and will be doing book signings around the area including at the Brewery Arts Center Expresso Yourself Café in Carson City on Wednesday, April 3 from 4 to 6 p.m.
Come meet the author and enjoy some conversation and your favorite beverage. Bring your copy of Poppies & White Elephants for the author to sign or purchase a copy at the signing event. A portion of each book sold will benefit Wild Horse Children’s Theater Kyra Conway scholarship fund. The BAC and Expresso Yourself Cafe are located at 449 W. King Street in Carson City.
People of various walks of life yearn for connection and attempt to reconcile missed moments over the years. Author J.M. Josten explores these sentiments in his first novel Poppies and White Elephants.
Poppies and White Elephants follows several characters through the gauntlet of small-town life, ultimately focusing on the broken places where we may become stronger Penn Plumb enters his final year of high school, completing his final requirements and mending fractured relationships.
Despite his outward success, he feels something lurking within himself. Over the course of the year, Penn’s understanding of his town, his girlfriend, and his family dramatically shifts when a tragic event occurs in Pageant. Penn finds himself piecing his experience together one word at a time. The book is available for purchase on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle editions.
J.M. Josten, a 2006 graduate of Carson High School, spends his days teaching Drama and English to middle school and high school students. He is currently working on a Doctorate of Education.
Previously, he earned degrees from Oregon State University, the University of Sioux Falls, and Augustana College (now Augustana University). He has been published in Pieces of the Heartland: Representing Midwestern Places (Hastings College Press), “Review of the DFW Reader” (Middle West Review), along with assorted creative non-fiction essays.
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