When: August 25, 2022, 6:00 PM
Where: The Pavilion at Hunter Valley Farm
What: A Dinner to Benefit The Gateway Center
More About the Event
Metro Drug Coalition is pleased to to be hosting award winning author, Sam Quinones for a special event August 25, 2022 at The Pavilion at Hunter Valley Farm. Guests will enjoy a special dinner and engage with Quinones in a discussion of his latest book, The Least of Us, True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth.
Sam Quinones is a journalist, storyteller, former LA Times reporter, and author of three acclaimed books of narrative nonfiction. His most recent book is The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, released in 2021. The book follows his 2015 release, Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Bloomsbury Press.
- Nominated for National Book Critics Circle award for Best Nonfiction Book of 2021
- Top 50 Best Nonfiction Books of last 25 years (Slate.com)
- Highly rated by 90+ million Goodreads.com readers
- “50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of 21st Century” (GQ Magazine)
- Winner of National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015
- Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by Amazon.com, the Daily Beast, Buzzfeed, Entertainment Weekly, Audible (plus others)