When:
May 17, 2018 @ 7:00 pm
2018-05-17T19:00:00-07:00
2018-05-17T19:30:00-07:00
Where:
Browsers Bookshop
107 Capitol Way N
Olympia, WA 98501
USA
107 Capitol Way N
Olympia, WA 98501
USA
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Join us as we welcome Olympia resident Matt Young talk about his new book, Eat the Apple: A Memoir(Bloomsbury). It is also downtown Olympia’s first Third Thursday event! We will be open until 9:00 PM.Listen to Maureen Corrigan’s review of Matt’s book on Fresh Air.ABOUT THE BOOK:
Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Young survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone, danger, and stakes for him and his fellow grunts were dialed up a dozen decibels.
Searing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Matt Young holds an MA in Creative Writing from Miami University and is the recipient of fellowships with Words After War and the Carey Institute for Global Good. His work can be found in Tin House, Word Riot, the Rumpus, Consequence, and elsewhere. He is a combat veteran, and lives in Olympia, Washington, where he teaches writing.
