Join bestselling author Ami McKay for a special preview Incite event this November, as she shares passages from the hotly anticipated The Witches of New York.
Date/Time: Nov 9 2016, 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Vancouver, CBC Studio 700Cost: Free
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Presented by the Vancouver Writers Fest and Vancouver Public Library
Audience members will also gain a sneak preview at The Vancouver Writers Fest’s 2017 season of Incite!
About The Author: Ami McKay’s debut novel, The Birth House, was a # 1 bestseller in Canada, winner of three CBA Libris Awards, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a book club favourite around the world. While writing her new novel, The Witches of New York, she discovered several women in her family tree who were accused and tried for witchcraft. Born and raised in Indiana, McKay now lives in Nova Scotia.
About The Book: The year is 1880. Two hundred years after the trials in Salem, Adelaide Thom (Moth from The Virgin Cure) has left her life in the sideshow to open a tea shop with another young woman who feels it's finally safe enough to describe herself as a witch: a former medical student and gardien de sorts (keeper of spells), Eleanor St. Clair. Together they cater to Manhattan's high society ladies, specializing in cures, palmistry and potions--and in guarding the secrets of their clients. All is well until one bright September afternoon, when an enchanting young woman named Beatrice Dunn arrives at their door seeking employment.
Beatrice soon becomes indispensable as Eleanor's apprentice, but her new life with the witches is marred by strange occurrences. She sees things no one else can see. She hears voices no one else can hear. Eventually, amidst the witches' tug-of-war over what's best for her, Beatrice disappears, leaving them to wonder whether it was by choice or by force. As Adelaide and Eleanor begin the desperate search for Beatrice, they're confronted by accusations and spectres from their own pasts. In a time when women were corseted, confined and committed for merely speaking their minds, were any of them safe?
Incite is presented in partnership with the Vancouver Public Library with support from the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, the R.J. Nelson Family Foundation the Vancouver Courier.
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