Tuesday October 27, 2015 7pm
Literary
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca
(902) 585-1502
JOAN CLARK is the award-winning author of 16 books, including The Victory of Geraldine Gull (finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction); Latitudes of Melt (a New York Times Notable Book); and An Audience of Chairs (winner of the Winterset Award), as well as two short-story collections and several novels for young adults. Born and raised in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, she now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
“For her fifth novel Joan Clark (who turns 81 this autumn) blazes her own distinct trail, fondly but incisively portraying Sussex, New Brunswick while chronicling the traumatized conduct of an extended family made bereft when a speeding truck runs into Lily McNab—sister, wife, mother, friend—on the warm June afternoon of her 58th birthday in 1981.The beloved woman’s death is immediate, but its effects reverberate profoundly. For the shocked principal characters—husband Hal, returning children Claudia and Matt, sister Laverne—the loss is incomprehensibly and brutally absolute. …Although, as The Birthday Lunch points out, “sorrow does not sleep,” the small kindnesses and touching moments of outreach offer welcome instances of comfort for a gaping wound can never fully heal.” ~Brett Grubisic, National Post
andrea.schwenke.wyile@acadiau.ca
(902) 585-1502
JOAN CLARK is the award-winning author of 16 books, including The Victory of Geraldine Gull (finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction); Latitudes of Melt (a New York Times Notable Book); and An Audience of Chairs (winner of the Winterset Award), as well as two short-story collections and several novels for young adults. Born and raised in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, she now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
“For her fifth novel Joan Clark (who turns 81 this autumn) blazes her own distinct trail, fondly but incisively portraying Sussex, New Brunswick while chronicling the traumatized conduct of an extended family made bereft when a speeding truck runs into Lily McNab—sister, wife, mother, friend—on the warm June afternoon of her 58th birthday in 1981.The beloved woman’s death is immediate, but its effects reverberate profoundly. For the shocked principal characters—husband Hal, returning children Claudia and Matt, sister Laverne—the loss is incomprehensibly and brutally absolute. …Although, as The Birthday Lunch points out, “sorrow does not sleep,” the small kindnesses and touching moments of outreach offer welcome instances of comfort for a gaping wound can never fully heal.” ~Brett Grubisic, National Post
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