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902-542-9511
Join us for a reading and discussion of filmmaker Erna Buffie's novel "Let Us Be True."
From the killing fields of Europe to the merciless beauty of the Canadian prairies, Let Us Be True tells the story of three women, whose lives have been shaped and damaged by secrets ? their own and those that stretch back through time, casting their shadow from one generation to the next. At the heart of the novel is 74-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, had always known - secrets are like dark and angry ghosts. And they don't just haunt you. They haunt everyone you love.
Over the past 25 years, Erna has written, directed and produced numerous award-winning documentary films for broadcasters around the world, and has interviewed some of the world's most interesting scientists and thinkers, including David Suzuki, Gloria Steinam and Jane Goodall. In 2013 she won the award for Best Direction in a Documentary at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards for her film Smarty Plants and in 2011, she wrote and directed The Changing Sea, which won several awards, including The Save The Seas Foundation Award at the 2011 International Wildlife Film Festival. Her other film writing and directing credits include, The Pill, By Woman's Hand and The Burning Times. Erna lived in Montreal for 20 years, and in a seaside home just outside of Halifax, for seven. Four years ago, she decided to return to the prairies and the city where she was born and raised. She now divides her time between Winnipeg and a small cottage on Long Pine Lake in the Whiteshell, which she shares with her husband and their little grey mutt.
http://coteaubooks.com/index.php?id=989
boxofdelightsbooks@gmail.com
902-542-9511
Join us for a reading and discussion of filmmaker Erna Buffie's novel "Let Us Be True."
From the killing fields of Europe to the merciless beauty of the Canadian prairies, Let Us Be True tells the story of three women, whose lives have been shaped and damaged by secrets ? their own and those that stretch back through time, casting their shadow from one generation to the next. At the heart of the novel is 74-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown away her past and kept it a secret from her daughters. But as Pearl confronts her own mortality, she begins to understand what her dead husband, Henry, had always known - secrets are like dark and angry ghosts. And they don't just haunt you. They haunt everyone you love.
Over the past 25 years, Erna has written, directed and produced numerous award-winning documentary films for broadcasters around the world, and has interviewed some of the world's most interesting scientists and thinkers, including David Suzuki, Gloria Steinam and Jane Goodall. In 2013 she won the award for Best Direction in a Documentary at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards for her film Smarty Plants and in 2011, she wrote and directed The Changing Sea, which won several awards, including The Save The Seas Foundation Award at the 2011 International Wildlife Film Festival. Her other film writing and directing credits include, The Pill, By Woman's Hand and The Burning Times. Erna lived in Montreal for 20 years, and in a seaside home just outside of Halifax, for seven. Four years ago, she decided to return to the prairies and the city where she was born and raised. She now divides her time between Winnipeg and a small cottage on Long Pine Lake in the Whiteshell, which she shares with her husband and their little grey mutt.
http://coteaubooks.com/index.php?id=989
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Wolfville, Nova Scotia
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(902) 542-9511
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