The Vancouver Writers Fest presents: The Fiction of Belonging
Straddling communities and identities, three rising literary stars powerfully capture contemporary realities and the difficult journey of finding acceptance and belonging.
Date/Time: Oct 24 2019
Vancouver, Performance Works | Event calendar1218 Cartwright St
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Cost: $20.00
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DEREK MASCARENHAS, ZALIKA REID-BENTA, HASSAN GHEDI SANTUR
Moderator: Anne Fleming
Canada’s new generation of authors write powerfully to the challenge of balancing cultures and communities. Derek Mascarenhas’ nationally lauded Coconut Dreams traces Indian Canadian Aiden and Ally Pinto’s youth, growing up in a predominantly white Canadian suburb. First-generation cultural expectations clash with second-generation expectations as Jamaican Canadian Kara Davis searches for authenticity in Zalika Reid-Benta’s sharp-witted Frying Plantain, praised by Quill and Quire as “honest and penetrating.” In Hassan Ghedi Santur’s The Youth of God, teenage Somali immigrant Nuur is pulled between his religious calling and his academic gifts. Deftly capturing contemporary Canada, these authors speak to how, while everyone’s path to belonging may look different, none of us are alone in our journeys.
Suitable for grades 10-12 and adults.
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