They don't have a “hottest book of the year” award in Australia (yet) but if they did this year it would go to Charlotte Wood’s The Natural Way of Things.
Date/Time: Oct 19 2016, 8:30 pm to 9:45 pm
Vancouver, Studio 1398Cost: $20.00
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It has already won two of Australia's most prestigious literary awards and is shortlisted for the Miles Franklin. The novel, centred on a group of young women who are drugged, kidnapped and imprisoned in a facility somewhere in the desert, explores misogyny, corporate control and being visible and female in Western society. “It’s the hardest book I’ve ever written,” says Wood. “At one point I cried and told my friends I couldn’t do it.” Come and hear what all of Australia is talking about.
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