Jamie Andrea Garzot

Vermont author Jamie Andrea Garzot brings her award-winning memoir, Unconventional: A Memoir of Entrepreneurism, Politics, and Pot, to Franklin for a free, interactive book talk hosted by the Haston Library. Part business memoir, part political chronicle, part personal reckoning, Unconventional follows Garzot's decade-long journey building one of California's first licensed cannabis retail operations — hauling six figures in cash, navigating legislators and law enforcement, and refusing to quit. The book has earned 10 awards, including an IPPY and an Eric Hoffer Award. Expect a lively, audience-driven forum with open Q&A. Bring your toughest questions. Free copies while supplies last