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SUMMARY:Toronto Double Launch: A Way to Be Happy & Hello\, Horse
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Toronto for the double launch of Caroline Adderson‘s Giller-longlisted A Way to Be Happy (Sep 10\, 2024) and Richard Kelly Kemick‘s Hello\, Horse (Aug 6\, 2024)! Both authors will be appearing and reading from their new short story collections\, along with a discussion and audience Q&A. Books will be available for sale and signing from Ben McNally Books. \nThe launch will take place on Thursday\, October 3 at 5PM. \nGet A Way to Be Happy here! \nGet Hello\, Horse here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize \nShort stories about disparate characters consider what it means to find happiness. \nOn New Year’s Eve\, a pair of addicts robs a string of high-end parties in order to fund their own recovery. A recently separated woman relocates to a small northern town\, where she receives a life-changing visitation\, and a Russian hitman\, suffering from a mysterious lung ailment\, retrieves long-buried memories of his past. In the nineteenth century\, a disparate group of women coalesce in the attempt to aid a young girl in her escape from a hospital for the insane. These are but some of the remarkable characters who populate these stories\, all of them grappling with conflicts ranging from mundane to extraordinary. Caroline Adderson’s A Way to Be Happy considers what it means to find happiness—and how often it comes through the grace of others. \nABOUT CAROLINE ADDERSON \nCaroline Adderson is the author of five novels (A Russian Sister\, Ellen in Pieces\, The Sky Is Falling\, Sitting Practice\, and A History of Forgetting)\, two previous collections of short stories (Pleased to Meet You and Bad Imaginings)\, as well as many books for young readers. Her award nominations include the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award\, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award\, two Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes\, the Governor General’s Literary Award\, the Rogers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist. The recipient of three BC Book Prizes\, three CBC Literary Awards\, and the Marian Engel Award for mid-career achievement\, Caroline lives and writes in Vancouver. \nABOUT HELLO\, HORSE \nTaut\, stylish stories take on big moral questions from surprising perspectives. \nA teenager’s job mucking stalls at a dog track takes a strange turn when his co-worker finds a new religion at odds with winning streaks. Two brothers set out in search of fame upon the frozen waters of a subarctic lake. After her mother’s death\, a high school student tries to make rent by winning the Unitarian Church’s Annual Young Writer’s Short Story Competition. An incarcerated man considers the nature of justice between shifts with his fellow inmates at Nations at War\, the ultimate live-action experience for tourists eager to learn about the Canadian Civil War. \nSpanning states and provinces\, and featuring an apocalypse\, a coterie of ghosts\, nuns on ice\, and an above-average number of dogs\, the stories in Hello\, Horse consider the mirage of authenticity and the impact of decisions we make—for better and for worse. \nABOUT RICHARD KELLY KEMICK \nRichard Kelly Kemick is an award-winning poet\, journalist\, and fiction writer. His limited series podcast\, Natural Life\, is an intimate and unexpectedly honest documentary on his cousin\, who is serving a life sentence without parole in Michigan. Richard is also the author of I Am Herod (also on audiobook)\, which takes readers undercover at one of the world’s largest religious events\, and Caribou Run\, a collection of poetry. He is the recipient of multiple awards including two National Magazine Awards and the Writers’ Guild of Alberta’s 2019 Award for Best Short Story. He lives in Rossland\, British Columbia.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/windsor-double-launch-a-way-to-be-happy-hello-horse-2/
LOCATION:Ben McNally Books\, 108 Queen St E\, Toronto\, ON\, M5C 1S4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:The Pages of the Sea: Vancouver Launch
DESCRIPTION:Come out to Upstart & Crow for the Vancouver launch of Anne Hawk‘s The Pages of the Sea (Sep 17\, 2024)! Anne will be reading from her debut novel\, along with a discussion hosted by Jasmine Sealy. Books will be available for sale and signing. \nThe launch will take place on Thursday\, October 3 at 7PM. \nGrab The Pages of the Sea here! \nABOUT THE PAGES OF THE SEA \nOn a Caribbean island in the mid-1960s\, a young girl copes with the heavy cost of migration. \nWhen her mother emigrates to England to find work\, Wheeler and her older sisters are left to live with their aunts and cousins. She spends most days with her cousin Donelle\, knocking about their island community. They know they must address their elders properly and change their shoes after church. And during the long\, quiet weeks of Lent\, when the absent sound of the radio seems to follow them down the road\, they look forward to kite season. But Donelle is just a child\, too\, and though her sisters look after her with varying levels of patience\, Wheeler couldn’t feel more alone. Everyone tells her that soon her mother will send for her\, but how much longer will it be? And as she does her best to navigate the tensions between her aunts\, why does it feel like there’s no one looking out for her at all? \nA story of sisterhood\, secrets\, and the sacrifices of love\, The Pages of the Sea is a tenderly lyrical portrait of innocence and an intensely moving evocation of what it’s like to be a child left behind. \nABOUT ANNE HAWK \nAnne Hawk grew up in the Caribbean\, the UK and Canada. She has worked as a journalist\, a paralegal and was for many years a secondary school teacher. She is married and lives in London. The Pages of the Sea is her first novel.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/the-pages-of-the-sea-vancouver-launch/
LOCATION:Upstart & Crow\, 1387 Railspur Alley\, Granville Island
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