Virtual Author Visit with Will Allison

On Monday, July 19 at 6:00 p.m. the Massillon Public Library Monday Night Book Club invites readers to attend a virtual visit with novelist Will Allison. Author of What You Have Left, Allison will speak directly with attendees, via web cam, in the library’s Second Floor Meeting Room.

In 1976, on the day of his wife's funeral, Wylie Greer drops off his five-year-old daughter, Holly, at his father-in-law's dairy farm on the outskirts of Columbia, South Carolina. Wylie asks for a little time to clear his head, but thirty years pass before Holly sees her father again. What You Have Left is about a father and a daughter trying to make their way back to one another across decades of longing, uncertainty, and ambivalence--all the while hoping to discover that what they have left is worth salvaging. “Shot through with sly humor and a knowing sympathy for human weakness, What You Have Left is a stunning debut that explores the weight of history, the nature of loss, and the possibility of forgiveness,” says Pulitzer Prize winning author Richard Ford.

This program is free, open to the public and no reservations are required. The Massillon Public Library is located at 208 Lincoln Way East. The Second Street entrance is handicap accessible.

For more information, contact the library at 330.832.9831, Ext. 312.