Broadcaster and journalist Minelle Mahtani has captivated Canadians with her enveloping, welcoming perspective and work supporting others to share their own stories. Her memoir, May It Have a Happy Ending, describes her poignant journey of gaining her voice just as her mother lost her own. Ayelet Tsabari is a celebrated literary voice, whose debut novel, Songs for the Brokenhearted, shares the journey of a young Yemeni Israeli woman who, lost within family stories, discovers her mother’s secret romance—and the reverberations of decisions through history. These two magnetic speakers also happen to be very good friends. Together, they’ll discuss the hard, beautiful work of finding one’s voice, through history and through stories, in an intimate conversation to remember.

Presented thanks to the generous support of Sam Znaimer in memory of Nancy Richler.

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Minelle Mahtani

MINELLE MAHTANI is an author, scholar and former radio host. She has won several prizes for her work, including a Digital Publishing Award for an essay in The Walrus that became the basis for May It Have a Happy Ending, her debut memoir. She lives in Vancouver.

Ayelet Tsabari

AYELET TSABARI is the author of the memoir in essays The Art of Leaving, winner of the Canadian Jewish Literary Award and a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction and the Vine National Canadian Jewish Book Award for Non-Fiction. Tsabari was a co-editor, with Leonarda Carranza and Eufemia Fantetti, of the anthology Tongues: On Longing and Belonging through Language. Her first book, The Best Place on Earth, won the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature and the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction.

Ayelet Tsabari’s attendance made possible thanks to the generous support of Sam Znaimer in memory of Nancy Richler.