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SUMMARY:Caroline Adderson at the BOOKED! Fernie Writers' Series
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Adderson\, author of the short story collection A Way to Be Happy\, is appearing as the last writer in the BOOKED! Fernie Writers’ Series 25/26 season. Caroline will be speaking in conversation with local author Angie Abdou. \nThe event is free to attend\, and will take place on Thursday\, May 26 2026 at 7PM PDT. The event is 19+ event in accordance with their liquor license. \nMore details and registration here. \nOrder a copy of A Way to Be Happy here! \nABOUT A WAY TO BE HAPPY \nLonglisted for the 2024 Giller Prize • A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 • A CBC Best Fiction Book of the Year \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.
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LOCATION:Fernie Heritage Library\, 492 3 Ave\, Fernie\, BC\, V0B 1M0\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Author Series,Discussion,Festival
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SUMMARY:CHERRY BEACH and ON SPORTS: Toronto Launch!
DESCRIPTION:Toronto readers! Join us for the double book launch of Don Gillmor’s Cherry Beach and David Macfarlane’s On Sports. The launch\, hosted by our intrepid sales coordinator Hilary\, will be held at The Supermarket\, and include a reading\, conversation and Q&A\, and books will be for sale and signing from Ben McNally. \nThe launch takes place on Thursday\, May 7 at 7PM EST. \nGrab Cherry Beach here! \nGrab On Sports here! \nABOUT CHERRY BEACH \nA brutal murder exposes secret real estate deals\, a corrupt police force\, and the dark heart of a city simmering with unrest. \nWhen two girls are found murdered in a rundown Toronto highrise\, Jamieson Abel and his partner are first on the scene. Abel is a law school dropout turned police detective chronically at odds with his colleagues and perpetually on the brink of being terminated\, and Davis is the department’s only female officer of colour. Both understand their being partnered as a form of banishment\, but when the details of the murder go public at the start of an excruciatingly hot summer\, they find themselves thrust into the centre of a front page investigation that will bring to a head the city’s long history of shady real estate deals and racist disenfranchisement. \nIntricately plotted and brilliantly layered\, Cherry Beach is a gripping literary crime novel that examines class\, race\, and corruption in the most multicultural city in the world. \nABOUT DON GILLMOR \nDon Gillmor is the author of To the River\, which won the Governor General’s Award for nonfiction. He is the author of five novels\, Cherry Beach\, Breaking and Entering\, Long Change\, Mount Pleasant\, and Kanata; a two-volume history of Canada\, Canada: A People’s History; and nine books for children\, two of which were nominated for the Governor General’s Award. He was a senior editor at The Walrus\, and his journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone\, GQ\, Saturday Night\, Toronto Life\, the Globe and Mail\, and the Toronto Star. He has won twelve National Magazine Awards and numerous other honours. He lives in Toronto. \nABOUT ON SPORTS \nWhat are sports\, really? What do we love about them? And what\, in our digital age\, have they become? \nOn Sports reads like a conversation between friends at the ballpark in those golden days before the kiss cam and college co-eds with T-shirt cannons spoiled the fun; a book that feels like the sun on your forehead and the breeze in your hair\, beer and laughter on your lips; a book that celebrates communion and friendship and the beauty of these games—whether it be baseball or football  or soccer or tennis or cricket—that we’ve designed to distract ourselves from the end of the world. It’s about what 7Up tastes like when drunk from the Grey Cup\, how much work it takes for talent to shine\, and the near impossibility of language to properly capture athletic excellence. It’s about the beauty of good sports copy\, the ephemerality of even the biggest sports story\, and how sport remains perpetually powered by the eleven-year-old in all of us. It’s a book about rediscovering the spirit of sport\, before online gambling and the manufactured spectacle of today’s professional sports suffocates the last of it; and it’s about where that spirit today is best found. \nABOUT DAVID MACFARLANE \nDavid Macfarlane‘s family memoir\, The Danger Tree\, was described by Christopher Hitchens as “one of the finest and most intriguing miniature elegies that I have read in many a year.” Macfarlane’s novel\, Summer Gone\, was shortlisted for the Giller Prize. Based on The Danger Tree\, “The Door You Came In\,” a two-man show (co-written and performed with Douglas Cameron) has been produced\, to acclaim\, from St. John’s\, Newfoundland\, to Stratford\, Ontario. Macfarlane lives in Toronto with his wife\, the designer\, Janice Lindsay.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/cherry-beach-and-on-sports-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:The Supermarket\, 268 Augusta Ave\, Toronto\, ON\, M5T 2L9\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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