Name: Danila Botha, Michael Carin, & Rebecca Papucaru Launch
Start: 2025-10-12T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-12T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9

Danila Botha, Michael Carin, & Rebecca Papucaru Launch

𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 presents a book launch featuring 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚, 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧, & 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐮.
Join us as 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚 (𝘼 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙐𝙨), 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 (𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙅𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙖𝙝), & 𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐮 (𝘼𝙨 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙖 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙮) sign and discuss their respective works.
Admission is Free.
Refreshements will be served.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊𝐒:
𝘼 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙋𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙐𝙨
When Hannah meets Jillian, their connection is instant and addictive. Both unique and talented, but equally adrift in trying to determine and then pursue their goals, they become each other’s anchor until Jillian’s lies threaten to unravel the lives they’ve built.
In this insightful exploration of friendship and identity, Judaism and cults, and hypocrisy and family Danila Botha brings her signature empathy and nuance into worlds few are intimately familiar with, with riveting results. Poignant and moving, A Place for People Like Us is a story that will stay with you for a long time.
𝙀𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙅𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙢𝙞𝙖𝙝
In the year 2020, at the height of the pandemic, an enigmatic woman gives birth to a boy named Edisson. Fourteen years later, the boy performs a magic show unlike any ever staged – a magic show destined to be the most watched, most debated, most controversial in history. Sitting in the audience is a ruin of a man named Jeremy Vanderbilt Delaney, a onetime celebrity journalist with patrician blood and a privileged heritage. As the remarkable magic show develops, events transpire to reveal how religious fanaticism and the deep fracture in American culture shattered Jeremy Delaney’s life and branded him with the name Jeremiah. Ultimately, Edisson’s show demonstrates a liberating path for Jeremiah, and offers a healing lesson for a divided America.
𝘼𝙨 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙖 𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖𝙨 𝘼𝙣𝙮
A teenaged refugee chases stardom but finds her purpose in Canada’s abortion-rights movement. Fleeing Chile after the 1973 coup, sixteen-year-old Paulina and her older brother Ernesto settle in Toronto. While Ernesto dreams of a glorious homecoming, Paulina embraces her liberation from the conventional life expected of her back home. Yet despite landing her first big role on a popular children’s cartoon, and her first girlfriend, she cannot escape survivor’s guilt. Haunted by the death of a childhood friend, she joins the underground struggle for reproductive freedom. But when a fellow exile pleads for her help terminating a pregnancy, Paulina’s public and private selves threaten to collide.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑𝐒:
𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐥𝐚 𝐁𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚 is the author of three critically acclaimed short story collections, GOT NO SECRETS and FOR ALL THE MEN (AND SOME OF THE WOMEN I’VE KNOWN) which was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award, The Vine Awards and the ReLit Award. Her new collection, THINGS THAT CAUSE INAPPROPRIATE HAPPINESS was published in 2024 by Guernica Editions. The title story, Things that Cause Inappropriate Happiness was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. It was also named a finalist for the Canadian Book Club Awards, in the Short Story category. She is also the author of the award- winning novel TOO MUCH ON THE INSIDE which was optioned for film. She is part of the faculty at Humber School for writers and is currently working on a new short story collection.
𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧 trained as a political theorist at McGill University, where he also studied under the godfather of Canadian literature, Hugh MacLennan. He is the author of several novels including Five Hundred Keys, The Kremlin Papers and the work of alternate history Churchill At Munich. His non-fiction response to the Holocaust, The Future Jew, won him wide recognition as a provocative secular humanist. Mr. Carin lives in Montreal.
𝐑𝐞𝐛𝐞𝐜𝐜𝐚 𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐮's debut collection, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was also a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (Quebec Writers’ Federation) and longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets). Her short fiction has appeared in Grain, Event, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly; “Yentas” was awarded The Malahat Review‘s 2020 Novella Prize. This is her first novel. She lives in the Eastern Townships, Quebec.