2025 Festival: October 20–26
Books & Ideas runs until June!

Katherine Ashenburg

Canada

KATHERINE ASHENBURG’s nonfiction books include The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die, and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. In 2018, she published her acclaimed debut novel, Sofie & Cecilia, and in 2021 she followed that work with the delightfully tart novel Her Turn.

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