Odd Jobs & After Hours: A Fiction Collection by Tom Zompakos

What: A book signing for Odd Jobs & After Hours: A Fiction Collection by Tom Zompakos

When: Saturday 8/6 from 12-3pm

Where: Chamblin's Uptown 215 N Laura St. Jacksonville FL

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Synopsis: Odd Jobs & After Hours is a collection of stories that track a mad drift down the East Coast of America spent getting involved in one so-called opportunity after another.

It begins in the wilderness of New England at a blacksmithing shop. Enjoy campfire tales followed by stories of navigating emotionally manipulative bureaucrats on a college campus. Next comes the glorious trash talk and brutal body hits of a rugby squad, counterpointed by an introduction to the finer things in life, namely oysters by a globetrotter.

Then it's off to New York City, to bum around in hostels, to fall in with apartment squatters and practically get chucked out the window, and to make a short film with Brooklyn hipsters. Change comes again, and soon it's off to Florida to work the night shift at the deli, narrowly avoid decapitation by a psychotic roommate, and poach wild hogs in the name of love. Enjoy these tales of criminal colleagues, slimeball bosses, unwise relationships, and those rare moments of rescuing a little freedom and joy from it all.