Monday, July 29, 7-8pm, Gramercy Books, 2424 E. Main St., Bexley, Ohio

Join editors and scholars Daniel Skinner and Berkeley Franz, and contributor Sharon Parsons, featuring Not Far from Me, Stories of Opioids and Ohio, the first book on this public health emergency composed entirely of first-person accounts.

More and more Americans find themselves in some way touched by the opioid epidemic. But while many have observed the effects of the crisis, Not Far From Me is the first book on this public health emergency composed entirely of first-person accounts. The collection unfolds across more than fifty gripping accounts by Ohioans at the center of the national epidemic. Shared through personal stories, poetry, interviews, and photos, these perspectives transcend typical one-dimensional portrayals of the crisis to offer a mosaic of how politics, religion, sports, economics, culture, race, and sexual orientation intersect in and around the epidemic.

Hosted by Columbus Bar Association and Gramercy Books Bexley.