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Fictional Motives – Jen Currin, Kevin Chong, Peggy Herring, Rose Seiler Scott
May 30, 2018 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
“Reimagining the past, envisioning the future, examining the present: fiction has many styles and approaches. Join Read Local BC and four lauded authors for an evening of fictional delights.
• Award-winning poet Jen Currin turns her hand to fiction with Hider/Seeker (Anvil Press), her debut fiction collection.
• You may not want to catch Kevin Chong’s The Plague (Arsenal Pulp Press). The novel is a modern retelling of the Camus classic that posits its story of infectious disease and quarantine in our contemporary age of social justice and rising inequity.
• In 1808, the Russian Ship St. Nikolai ran aground off the Olympic Peninsula; Anna, Like Thunder by Peggy Herring (TouchWood Editions) is based on this astounding historical event and the lives of the people affected.
• Rose Seiler Scott’s historical novel, Threaten to Undo Us (Promontory Press), won the Word Guild’s 2016 award for historical fiction. The novel follows the harrowing journey of a Polish refugee during the end of the Second World War.
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m.
Free
Massy Books
229 East Georgia Street, Vancouver BC V6A 1Z6
Books available for sale
Located on the unceded and traditional territory of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh people”