Jim Zervanos, "Your Story Starts Here"

Main Point Books welcomes back author Jim Zervanos with his new memoir about teaching, “Your Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z.”

This event starts at 7:00 pm in our lower level event space. Reservations are requested via Eventbrite; walk-ins are welcome.

About the Book

Jim Zervanos, a seasoned high-school English teacher and father  of two, embarks on a mission at the cusp of a new school year. He  realizes that today’s youth are thrust into a tumultuous world and  burdened with saving it. To chronicle this extraordinary period in  America, he assigns himself a unique task: keeping a journal.

By year’s end, Jim, unwavering in his determination to inspire  hope in his students, discovers that it’s the youth who inspire hope  in him. Their creativity and ideals paint a vivid portrait of an  evolving America, seen through the kaleidoscope of Generation Z.  Your Story Starts Here: A Year on the Brink with Generation Z is an intimate exploration of the challenges, resilience, and  unwavering hope of today’s youth in a turbulent world.

About the Author

Jim Zervanos is the author of the memoir That Time I Got  Cancer: A Love Story and the novel LOVE Park. His award-win ning essays and short stories have been published in numerous  literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He is a graduate  of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and  Bucknell University, where he won the William Bucknell Prize  for English and was an Academic All-American baseball play er. He teaches at a high school in the suburbs of Philadelphia,  where he lives with his wife and two sons and has risen in the  baseball pantheon as coach of two Little League teams.