Arts & Entertainment

Suwanee Author Is Building Book Buzz

Thompson has a signing in Buford soon for 'Young Men Shall See.'

The local buzz is growing for Suwanee author Scott Thompson, whose first novel, "Young Men Shall See," was published earlier this year.

Thompson has a signing Saturday at Books for Less in Buford, and another event later in June in Peachtree Corners.

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The book has sold about 300 print books, and many more copies have been downloaded to Kindle, Thompson said in an email.

"This book has been rambling around in my mind since I was a teenager," Thompson, a Newnan native, explained. "It’s a story I had to tell. ... This book is about being young and irresponsible, and also how that can create huge problems. It's also about how even the least responsible among us have to make decisions that can change life forever. When backed into a corner what do we do?  Do we chose right or wrong?"

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According to website material, the book is set in the 1980s, in the fictitious town of River Falls, Ga., "Segregation in America had been legally abolished for a generation, but many still struggled with how black and white fit together and existed — integrated in word, but still segregated by old habits and underlying emotion. Young Men Shall See follows Gus (Ambrose, the main character) and his friends as they navigate this new world, and learn the hard way that actions have consequences, and real justice can mean going against everything you once believed to be true."

Thompson, though, says his son is his favorite artist. "He colors with passion, and does it only for the love of the art. His artwork moves me like no other," Scott Thompson said on his Facebook page.

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