Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library.
This Incite event is all about love—romantic, familial, tender, fierce, gut-wrenching, and wondrous love. Three LGBTQ+ authors join us on-stage to discuss their highly anticipated novels, which boldly explore love in all its expressions.
In Christina Cooke’s searing debut novel, Broughtupsy, Akúa returns home to Jamaica for the first time in ten years and is forced to confront the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and of what it means to feel at home.
Anne Fleming’s Curiosities is a genre- and gender-bending historical novel with a modern twist. We follow a present-day amateur historian, Anne, as she pieces together seventeenth-century manuscripts that tell conflicting stories about two lovers, living in a time when there were no labels for who they might truly be.
What if you had the chance to rewrite the course of your relationship, again and again, in the hopes that it would work out? Myriam Lacroix’s How It Works Out explores just this, as a queer love story plays out in many alternate realities to paint a darkly comic portrait of love’s many promises and perils.
Join us for a vivacious conversation, as the authors sit down to discuss their books with author Candie Tanaka.