Sheboygan raised, Gina Davidson, will be in town to read from her new book: Bessers & the Rolling Stone! Join us in the Writers Studio for what is sure to be a compelling evening.
When an accident leaves Gina’s dysfunctional, alcoholic father in a coma, she’s shocked to be called upon as next of kin. She hasn’t had contact with him for seven years, and she’s seen him only twice in the last twenty. With conflicted emotions, she leaves her young family in Florida and travels to Wisconsin to be at the side of the man she adored as a child—the one who lovingly called her Bessers—but who nevertheless abandoned her at the age of sixteen. Knowing she’s not the only one her father left behind, she calls on her three younger siblings from his other failed marriages—a brother who’s incarcerated, another who just got out, and a sister who’s never met her brothers or their father. Might Gina’s long-held hope to bring together the fragments of her family be realized? Could this twist of fate, instead of further breaking her heart, perhaps help to heal it?
Gina (Wilsing) Davidson, born and raised in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has been a freelance writer for more than thirty years. Her published work has appeared in several newspapers, including the Charlotte Sun, Tallahassee Democrat, and Charlotte Observer, as well as magazines, including Tallahassee, Unconquered, and Sandestin.
Gina graduated from Florida State University with a degree in secondary English education and for more than a decade taught language arts—first at the high-school level and then elementary. Fourth grade was her favorite.
She’s been writing since the seventh grade, the year she bought her first grammar book, learned to type, and fell in love with words. In addition to writing for publication, she has a collection of more than two hundred poems she’s written for friends and family, but mostly for herself. Gina lives with her husband, Larry, and their golden retriever, Clark, in Tallahassee, Florida.
Their two grown children have moved closer to the coast, and Gina and Larry hope to do the same one day.