Come by the Page & Palette to meet Jeffrey Blount with his book, Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way!
From Jeffrey Blount comes his newest spellbinding novel about a self-identified failure,
forced to uncover the wisdom of his past in order to recognize that money can’t solve
every problem. Jeffrey is an award-winning author of three novels.
Jeffrey Blount confronts failure and self-discovery head on in
his newest novel, Mr. Jimmy from Around the Way
After a highly publicized fall from grace, James Henry Ferguson attempts to flee from the
chaos and ends up in a community that has been neglected and ignored by everyone,
rural Ham, Mississippi—a place of abject poverty, the neighborhood is commonly
referred to as “Around the Way.” When a troubling discovery is made, the entire
neighborhood is rocked, and James is forced to confront his own past in order to help
the community have a future.