Author Talk and Signing with Elizabeth J. Haynes

Join us at Found Books & Shop for an Author Talk and Signing with Author Elizabeth J. Haynes!

Elizabeth will be with us on Wednesday October 22nd to discuss her books Food For the Journey and The Errant Husband. Additionlly, look forward to an evening filled with conversation about Solo Travelling and Travel Writing. After travelling extensively in Europe, Asia, Cuba, and South and Central America, Elizabeth is not only an incredible writer, but a wealth of knowledge on solo travel.

When: Wednesday October 22nd, 7-9:00pm (Doors Open 6:30pm)
Where: Found Books & Shop, 208 1st Street W, Cochrane, AB T4C 1B7
Cost: $5 (plus tax) for entry, but this $5 goes directly towards the purchase of your copy of either Food For the Journey or The Errant Husband.

About Food For the Journey:

In this inspiring memoir rich with the flavours of other cultures, the author journeys by bike, on foot, by bus, plane, and train in her quest to understand the lives of the people she meets.

You know you’re not on a typical turista tour when you read, “We stopped for a mid-day lunch of piranha and hiked to a lagoon.” This writer’s explorations are unpredictable, sometimes perilous, often amusing, and always fascinating. While Elizabeth J. Haynes is an outsider—in the Philippines as a volunteer working with disabled children, at a pig killing in a remote Indonesian village, or even at a family wedding in rural North Carolina—she offers a compassionate view of those around her.

Insights and revelations emerge from stories Haynes tells about the vagaries of the human heart. Cycling with her sister in Cuba, she hopes her sister will find the strength to leave a difficult relationship. On a working trip in Armenia, she recalls a lost love; in Cambodia, in an encounter with a little girl, she faces the tragedy of the Khmer Rouge regime. Like many first-world travellers, she is pained by the want and suffering she witnesses and is moved by the generosity she receives.

As Elizabeth J. Haynes writes, “No one travels alone. No one journeys without help.” And sometimes help comes in the form of food—Southern grits with pancakes, Armenian eggplant stuffed with walnuts and pomegranate, grilled guinea pig in Peru—nourishment for the soul of the traveller. This travel memoir is a sumptuous meal with many courses, savoury and sweet.

About The Errant Husband:

Thelma, a bored Calgary bureaucrat and her husband, Wally, a struggling writer, are drifting apart. Thelma discovers a box of old papers from the archeology degree she didn’t complete, while Wally revisits his youthful obsession with Che Guevara after Rosa, an attractive young Cuban poet, joins his writing group. Wally receives a grant to study the conquistador, Hernando De Soto, in Cuba, and Thelma decides to join him. Arriving in Havana, she discovers that Wally has disappeared.

With the artist cab driver, Tomás, his side kick, Jorge, and Cathy, a divorcee looking for love, Thelma travels the island in search of her errant husband. She is visited by the ghost of Isabel de Bobadilla, the wife De Soto abandoned, and memories of her beloved late father, a geologist. When the Soviet era Lada breaks down on a remote part of the Zapata peninsula, Thelma and Tomás discover a shared interest in the underground caves that litter the limestone peninsula and the sparks begin to fly.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Found Books & Shop, 208 1st Street W, Cochrane, Canada