# Event Details - **Event Name**: Josh Weil in Person - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 30 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 30 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join us on Thursday, July 30 at 7 PM as Josh Weil talks about his new novel What Came West.About this EventAbout the BookA gripping tale of M**der and pursuit set against the shifting Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush, where ambition, violence, and destiny collide.“What Came West is astonishing. Unraveling the mythology of the Western with a genius for insight and description, Weil tells the story anew: a beautiful, ruminative, bloody, terrifying and brilliant book about a chapter in the life of one man and in the life of our country. Unmissable.” —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LessSierra Nevada, 1840s, just before the Gold Rush ignites. Silas Hall has never belonged anywhere except the wild. Bullied as a child and uneasy even within his own family, he finds brief solace in love and fatherhood before the pull of the frontier overwhelms him. One day he heads west, chasing a life that might finally make sense.What follows is a swift, pulse-pounding journey into the mountains, where Silas becomes one of the first white settlers to cross into the Sierra Nevada. He forges a precarious peace with the Indigenous people who live there—until the Gold Rush crashes in with violent force. As thousands flood the region, the balance shatters, and Silas commits M**der, a desperate act that alters the course of every life around him, including his own.Taut and propulsive, What Came West is told in two parallel voices—one a tense, third-person account of Silas on the run, and the other a confessional letter from Silas to the son he left behind—and confronts many different forms of American inheritance, in all its danger, emotional voltage, and mythic momentum. Weil’s masterpiece is a fierce, heart-driven portrait of an outsider racing toward belonging and barreling headlong into consequence.About the AuthorJOSH WEIL is the author of the novel The Great Glass Sea, the novella collection The New Valley, and the story collection The Age of Perpetual Light. He is a Fulbright fellow and has been awarded the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a “5 Under 35” award from the National Book Foundation, the California Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. For the past dozen years, he has called the Sierra Nevada of Northern California home.About Mira BartokMira Bartók is the author/illustrator of The Memory Palace, a New York Times bestsellingmemoir and winner of the 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography. Herwriting has appeared in numerous literary journals and magazines, including the Kenyon Review,the Massachusetts Review, Jubilat, and Psychology Today, among others. She has published over35 illustrated books for children, including The Wonderling: Songcatcher (published byCandlewick Press) and The Wonderling: Singing Tree (forthcoming in 2027). Mira also a fieldnaturalist and spends a lot of time monitoring endangered turtles for MassWildlife. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/south-hadley/josh-weil-in-person/100001988938383245 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art, Sports, Workshops - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-07-30T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Odyssey Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: South Hadley - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Odyssey Bookshop - **lat**: 42.259151 - **long**: -72.57602 - **full address**: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Josh Weil in Person - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/e08b8673283e6992ad8f984e8f5c331837e6cdcc20484c7d93ac00a4b8ac30a3-rimg-w1200-h863-dcbc712d-gmir.jpg?v=1778365070 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Josh Weil in Person being held? - **A:** Josh Weil in Person takes place on Thu, 30 Jul, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Thu, 30 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Josh Weil in Person? - **A:** Josh Weil in Person is organized by Odyssey Bookshop. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Josh Weil in Person", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/e08b8673283e6992ad8f984e8f5c331837e6cdcc20484c7d93ac00a4b8ac30a3-rimg-w1200-h863-dcbc712d-gmir.jpg?v=1778365070", "startDate": "2026-07-30", "endDate": "2026-07-30", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/josh-weil-in-person/100001988938383245", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Odyssey Bookshop", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "9 College Street", "postalCode": "01075", "addressLocality": "South Hadley", "addressRegion": "MA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "42.259151", "longitude": "-72.57602" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us on Thursday, July 30 at 7 PM as Josh Weil talks about his new novel What Came West.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-04", "availabilityEnds": "2026-07-30", "validFrom": "2026-09-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/josh-weil-in-person/100001988938383245" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/josh-weil-in-person/100001988938383245", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/south-hadley/josh-weil-in-person/100001988938383245", "price": 0, "name": "Donation to Support Our Events" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Odyssey Bookshop", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/odyssey-bookshop/18799656" } ] } ] ```