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SUMMARY:INCITE: Hot Bestsellers with Nita Prose and Jessamine Chan
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. \nGet ready for some of the most talked about books of the season! Our second Incite event features two new instant bestsellers: Nita Prose delivers a Clue-like\, locked-room mystery in her debut novel The Maid\, and Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers follows a young mother who lands in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance. They’ll speak with Ashley Audrain\, internationally bestselling author of The Push\, in a livestream event on February 9 at 7pm PT. \nThe Maid follows twenty-five-year-old Molly Gray\, who struggles with social skills and misreads the intentions of others\, but delights in her work as a hotel maid. Molly’s orderly life is upended the day she enters the suite of the infamous and wealthy Charles Black\, only to find him dead in his bed. Molly’s unusual demeanour has the police targeting her as their lead suspect\, while friends she never knew she had unite with her in a search for clues to what really happened to Mr. Black. But will they be able to find the real killer before it’s too late? \nNamed one of the most anticipated books of the year by Glamour\, W magazine\, PopSugar\, The Rumpus\, Book Riot\, The Globe and Mail\, Chatelaine\, and Canadian Living\, The Maid is a heartwarming debut\, which reveals that all mysteries can be solved through connection to the human heart. \nThe School for Good Mothers is a taut and explosive page-turner that has been called “horrifyingly unbelievable and eerily prescient all at once” (Vogue) and “impossible to put down and impossible to forget” (Library Journal). \nFrida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacrifices. She can’t persuade her husband\, Gust\, to give up his wellness-obsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet\, their cherubic daughter\, does Frida finally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has\, but she is just enough. \nUntil Frida has a very bad day. Because of one moment of poor judgment\, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother-like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion. Jessamine Chan’s debut is a transgressive novel of ideas about the perils of “perfect” upper-middle class parenting; the violence enacted upon women; the systems that separate families; and the boundlessness of love. \nThis conversation is sure to be just as riveting as the authors’ page-turning novels. RSVP now! \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to purchase the books at your favourite independent bookseller\, or use our Festival Bookstore partner\, kidsbooks. \nThis is an online\, live event. 
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SUMMARY:INCITE: Damon Galgut in Conversation with John Freeman
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library. \nThe new year has come\, and with it\, a dazzling new season of Incite! Kick off the 2022 season with Damon Galgut\, in celebration of his 2021 Booker Prize win for his novel\, The Promise\, in conversation with beloved Festival moderator and editor\, John Freeman.  \nIn an exclusive pre-recorded event streamed from dual locations in South Africa and the UK\, Galgut will share insights from both the process and pages of his recent tour de force\, set in the town of his birth. Raved about in media\, including The Guardian\, Harper’s Magazine and The New York Times (Editor’s Choice)\, The Promise is an incisory\, kaleidoscopic look at grief and guilt during a white family’s decline amidst South Africa’s transition out of apartheid—and the deterred promise the family has failed to keep for one of their servants. \nThis won’t be an event to miss! RSVP early. \nFrom the publisher: Haunted by an unmet promise\, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift\, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton\, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life’s unfulfilled potential; Astrid\, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest\, Amor\, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. \nReunited by four funerals over three decades\, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country—one of resentment\, renewal\, and\, ultimately\, hope. The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history\, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up The Promise at your favourite independent bookseller\, or use our Festival Bookstore partner\, kidsbooks. \nThis is an online\, pre-recorded event. 
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-damon-galgut
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