Best-selling author Silas House will speak at the Main Library on Thursday, October  22 at 6:00. 

House will be discussing his new book Eli the Good.  For ten-year-old Eli Book, the summer of 1976 threatened to tear his family apart. There is his distant mother; his traumatized Vietnam vet dad; his wild sister; his former war protester aunt; and his tough yet troubled best friend, Edie, the only person with whom he can be himself. As tempers flare and his father’s nightmares rage, Eli watches from the sidelines, but soon he cannot escape the current of conflict. This book is a tender look of the complexities of childhood and the harsh reality of war.

 “In typical Silas fashion, he combines music and words to tell his story,” says library director Lisa Rice. “Silas is able to transport the reader to a special place in time whether it is present day or 1976.”

            Silas has asked his friend Graham Hudspeth to help him set the mood for this event by performing some tunes from the 1970s.

            Silas House is the nationally best-selling author of the award-winning novels Clay’s Quilt, A Parchment of Leaves, and The Coal Tattoo. He serves as writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University and lives in eastern Kentucky with two daughters and two dogs.

            For more information about this event, contact Jayne Pelaski at jaynep@warrenpl.org or call 781-4882.