Past Event
Wednesday, June 4, 2014, 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Sam Halpern: A Far Piece to Canaan
925 W. Washington Street, San Diego, 92103
Cost: Free
Sam Halpern will discuss and sign A Far Piece to Canaan: A Novel of Friendship and Redemption.
Inspired by Halpern’s childhood in rural Kentucky, the story tells the tale of Samuel Zelinsky, a celebrated but troubled former professor who reluctantly returns after his wife’s death to the Kentucky hills where he lived as a child to reconnect with long-buried memories and make good on a forgotten promise.
Sam Halpern is the father of Justin Halpern, author of the New York Times bestseller Sh*t My Dad Says. Sam is a professor of nuclear medicine and lives in San Diego.