An Afternoon with Ed Crockett

Welcome to An Afternoon with Ed Crockett! Join us at Books-A-Million for an exclusive event with local author, Ed Crockett. Get ready to dive into the world of his book and hear firsthand about his writing process, inspirations, and more. This is a fantastic opportunity to meet Ed in person, ask him questions, and even get your book signed! Don't miss out on this exciting event - mark your calendars now!

Ed will begin the event with a discussion/Q+A which will be followed by a signing. Books will be available in store for purchase.

There was a lot of pain on Munjoy Hill, a close-knit working-class neighborhood of immigrants that also saw its share of drugs, alcohol, poverty, and violence in the 1960s and 1970s. A young Ed Crockett, at home with seven siblings, an ailing and broke mother, and more than a dozen stray animals, was caught in the middle of it all and looking for a way out. Crockett's memoir is an often bittersweet story that captures the joys of youth and love of family set against a backdrop of poverty, uncertainty, and the ever-present spectre of an alcoholic and often homeless father whose flaws, life choices, and fate haunt a young man and tear at his confidence even as a adult. Can he honor his mother's pleadings to don't be like your father and rise above the family's cycle of poverty and alcoholism? With love, compassion, and the cleared-eyed benefit of time, Crockett writes of his siblings, his neighborhood, the eccentric wisdom of his mother, and life in a small city in the years before it emerged as one of the hippest places in America.

Event Venue

Books-A-Million, 430 Gorham Road, South Portland, United States