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Join author Michelle Winters at Imperial Theatre on Saturday, September 28 at 7pm for our Fiction Launch. Author of the acclaimed debut novel I Am a Truck (Invisible Publishing, 2016), Michelle will bring her funny and furious new novel Hair for Men (House of Anansi, 2024) to Fog Lit Festival. Michelle will be in-conversation with Julia Wright.
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BOOK DESCRIPTION: The second novel by Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michelle Winters teems with hot towel shaves and the steady thrum of female rage.
Spurred by adolescent trauma, Louise adopts a life of hardcore punk violence until she stumbles into a job at a mysterious men’s hair salon, where her unique relationship with her clientele shows her a more perfect world—or so it seems. When that world is overturned, she flees to a marina on the East Coast, where she lives free from reminders of her past—except the duffle-bagged ones she jettisons nightly in a forsaken cove. But on the day of the Tragically Hip’s 2016 farewell performance in Kingston, a man surfaces from the Bay of Fundy, rousing long-dormant urges and giving Louise an unexpected gift: the chance to make things right.
Funny, warm, and furious, Hair for Men is a subversive exploration of gender, forgiveness, and chucking convention.
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Michelle Winters is a writer, painter, and translator born and raised in Saint John, NB. Her debut novel, I Am a Truck, was shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the translator of Kiss the Undertow and Daniil and Vanya by Marie-Hélène Larochelle. She lives in Toronto.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Imperial Theatre, 12 King Square South,Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada