Hosted by Laughing Oyster Bookshop. Mary J. Oliver will be reading from her prize winning memoir Jim Neat.
“In 1926, Jim Neat, aged 22, emigrated from England to Canada, seeking land to break and a comely wife. Instead he was forced to endure 10 years of hardship as a hobo during the Great Depression. His daughter, Mary J. Oliver, has reconstructed his mysterious life in her prize winning book “Jim Neat, The Case of a Young Man Down on His Luck.” Told from her perspective as a contemporary feminist writer and artist, its a gripping story of tragic loss, love, and forgiveness.”
