Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.
Debut novelists Lily Wang and Scott Alexander Howard unveil moving works of literary fiction that will enchant readers with exquisite prose, and a touch of the otherworldly. Explore threads of memory, longing, loss, and the surreal at this Incite event.
Lily Wang’s Silver Repetition tenderly illuminates the fullness of identity despite fractures in language, culture, and relationships. Having left China for Canada with her parents as a child, Yuè Yuè yearns to discover who she is as she nears the end of her degree and starts a new relationship. In urgent poetic fragments, she seeks common ground with her Canadian-born younger sister and grieves the cousin she lost touch with back home.
For fans of Emily St. John Mandel, David Mitchell, and Kazuo Ishiguro, The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard is a literary speculative novel set in an unnamed valley, where bereaved residents can petition to cross a forbidden border to see their lost loved ones again. This masterful modern fable has been called “unforgettable” (Kevin Chong) and “astonishingly brilliant” (Liz Nugent).
Our guests speak with Tara McGuire, author of the moving memoir Holden After & Before.