Happy people to whom nothing happens are generally not the focus for novelists. Meet three authors whose characters grapple with abandonment, secret pasts, loneliness, shameful national history and reconciliation.
Date/Time: Oct 18 2016, 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm
Vancouver, Studio 1398Cost: $20.00
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Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Ashley Little, Francesca Melandri
Moderator: Shaena Lambert
Rowan Hisayo Buchanan’s debut novel, sold after a fierce six-way auction with publishers, is heralded by Lorrie Moore as “cause for celebration.” Ashley Little has followed up her IMPAC Dublin-nominated Anatomy of a Girl Gang with the story of 11-year-old Tucker on an epic search for his father across mid-90s America. And fans of Elena Ferrante will be delighted by Italy’s Francesca Melandri, whose bestselling novel Eva Sleeps, follows a woman searching for truth about her origins. It is soon to be a film, and has been translated into German, French, Dutch and English.
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