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SUMMARY:Incite: Fiction as a Tempest
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nThis spring brings rare talents and heart-rending prose in the form of Janice Lynn Mather’s explosive short story collection Uncertain Kin (Doubleday Canada) and Tsering Yangzom Lama’s impassioned debut novel\, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies (McClelland & Stewart). Joined by moderator Eddy Boudel Tan\, author of The Rebellious Tide (Dundurn Press)\, our final May Incite will feature an absorbing conversation on relationships\, displacement and longing\, as well as all of the minute and miraculous ways we find ourselves in the world. \nAbout the Books \nWe Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama \nA haunting first novel that recounts a Tibetan family’s fifty-year journey through exile and their struggles to forge new lives of dignity\, love\, and hope. Named one of Publisher Weekly‘s Writers to Watch\, and a most anticipated book of the year by The Millions and Ms. \nIn the wake of China’s invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s\, Lhamo and her sister\, Tenkyi\, arrive at a refugee camp on the border of Nepal. As Lhamo tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community\, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle. \nBreathtaking in scope and powerfully intimate\, We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies is a gorgeously written meditation on colonization\, displacement\, and the lengths we’ll go to remain connected to our families and ancestral lands. Told through the lives of four people over fifty years\, this beautifully lyrical debut novel provides a nuanced portrait of the world of Tibetan exiles. \nUncertain Kin by Janice Lynn Mather \nFrom Governor General’s Literary Award finalist Janice Lynn Mather comes a mesmerizing collection of linked stories that explores the beauty and brutality of being alive. \nSet against the vivid backdrop of The Bahamas\, eighteen luminous and haunting stories introduce women and girls searching for certainty and belonging as they navigate profound upheaval. The characters are bold and big-hearted\, complex and intimately familiar. They grapple with the bonds of kinship and the responsibilities of parenthood\, with grief\, longing\, betrayal\, coming of age and what it means to be a woman. \nTinged with folklore and the surreal\, Uncertain Kin is grounded by its emotional richness and breathtaking insight into our relationships with others—and ourselves. This extraordinary collection signals the debut of an important new voice in literature. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up the book at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis event can be attended in-person or online. At checkout\, we will ask you if you plan to join us online or in-person.  \nThe Vancouver Writers Fest encourages patrons to wear face masks at its events. While not currently mandated by the BC health authority\, face masks continue to offer assurance and safety for many of the communities the VWF serves. We thank you for your understanding and consideration.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/incite-may-18
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Incite: Kiss the Red Stairs with Marsha Lederman
DESCRIPTION:Presented in partnership with Vancouver Public Library and TELUS. \nIn a powerful and intimate Incite event\, long-time Festival friend\, moderator\, and award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman returns to our in-person stages for the launch of her stunning memoir on intergenerational trauma\, monumental change\, and survival. Kiss the Red Stairs: The Holocaust\, Once Removed explores the impact of a generation’s anguish on her family\, beginning when Lederman was only five years old\, and asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. \nIn conversation with Kathryn Gretsinger\, another beloved moderator of the Festival\, this heart-to-heart will explore the rippling effect of Lederman’s family history throughout her own life\, including being a mother to a young son\, experiencing a difficult divorce\, and an ever-present need to explore and understand the stories and experiences of those that have gone before. \nRSVP to join us for the first in-person Incite events in two years—a momentous occasion made even more special for the friends we’ll have together on stage. If you would prefer to join us online\, register to receive the livestream link! \nFrom the publisher \nFor readers of All Things Consoled by Elizabeth Hay and They Left Us Everything by Plum Johnson\, Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir by award-winning journalist Marsha Lederman. Marsha was five when a simple question led to a horrifying answer. Sitting in her kitchen\, she asked her mother why she didn’t have any grandparents. Her mother told her the truth: the Holocaust. \nDecades later\, her parents dead and herself a mother to a young son\, Marsha begins to wonder how much history has shaped her own life. Reeling in the wake of a divorce\, she craves her parents’ help. But in their absence\, she is gripped by a need to understand the trauma they suffered\, and she begins her own journey into the past to tell her family’s stories of loss and resilience. Kiss the Red Stairs is a compelling memoir of Holocaust survival\, intergenerational trauma\, divorce\, and discovery that will guide readers through several lifetimes of monumental change. \nIncite events are free and open to the public\, but an RSVP is required. We encourage you to pick up the book at your favourite independent bookseller. \nThis event can be attended in-person or online. At checkout\, we will ask you if you plan to join us online or in-person.  \nThe Vancouver Writers Fest encourages patrons to wear face masks at its events. While not currently mandated by the BC health authority\, face masks continue to offer assurance and safety for many of the communities the VWF serves. We thank you for your understanding and consideration.
URL:https://writersfest.bc.ca/event/kiss-the-red-stairs
LOCATION:Vancouver Public Library – Central Library
CATEGORIES:Incite Event,Digital,Theatre
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