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SUMMARY:Self Care: Toronto Launch
DESCRIPTION:Join us in celebrating the Toronto launch of Russell Smith’s new novel\, Self Care! Russell will be in conversation with Lydia Perovic and reading from the book\, and copies will be made available for sale and signing by Another Story bookshop. \nThe launch will take place at the Society Clubhouse on Thursday\, September 18 at 7PM. \nMore details here. \nOrder a copy of Self Care here! \nABOUT SELF CARE \nAn electric examination of women and men\, sex and love\, self-loathing and twenty-first century loneliness. \nBetween writing a weekly column for The Hype Report and managing her mood stabilizers\, Gloria navigates a series of quasi-relationships while commiserating with her best friend about dating apps and dick pics\, married men and questionable boundaries. But when she makes a glib pass at Daryn\, a stranger on a subway platform crowded with young anti-immigration protesters\, and finds him waiting for her outside her health club a couple of days later\, a surprising curiosity leads her not to consider a restraining order\, but to talk to him. \nClaiming she wants to interview him for an article on the incel movement\, Gloria meets Daryn for coffee and soon invites him back to her apartment—where his earnestness and painfully restrained desire inspire her to dominate him sexually. As their physical relationship intensifies\, so does their emotional connection\, and Gloria can’t shake the sense that she’s headed in a dangerous direction. \nAn electric examination of sex and love\, self-loathing\, and twenty-first century loneliness\, Self Care is a devastating novel about women and men\, what they want and what they say they want\, and the violent tension between the two. \nABOUT RUSSELL SMITH \nRussell Smith is the author of twelve previous books of fiction\, nonfiction\, and translation. His fiction has been nominated for every major Canadian award\, including the Giller Prize\, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize\, and the Amazon First Novel Award. A  journalist and cultural commentator\, his nonfiction has appeared in the New York Review of Books\, the Globe and Mail\, The Walrus\, and elsewhere. An acquiring editor at Dundurn Press\, Smith lives in Toronto.
URL:https://www.biblioasis.com/event/self-care-toronto-launch/
LOCATION:The Society Clubhouse\, 967 College Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M6H 1A6\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Reading
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