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Book*hug Press and The City and The City Books present the Hamilton launch of Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood by Adrienne Gruber. With special guests Amy Jones, author of Pebble & Dove, and Elizabeth Ross, author of After Birth.Wednesday, July 17, 2024
7:00-9:00 pm ET
Jordan's Homeside Pub, 1521 Main St. E., Hamilton, ON
Admission is free. All are welcome to attend.
Books will be available for purchase, and, of course, the author will be signing!
Praise for Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes:
“In this stunning and deeply personal collection of essays, Adrienne Gruber explores modern motherhood in all its beautiful, terrifying, confusing, grotesque, joyful, sometimes mundane, sometimes ridiculous glory, in a way that is both intimate and yet wholly universal. With a poet’s ear for language—unsentimental, startling, sharp as a razor—and a memoirist’s knack for finding meaning in the chaotic churn of everyday life, Gruber cracks open her own heart to show you the truth in your own. Honest, tender, and firmly rooted in the body and its connection to the natural world, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a deep, anguished howl in the dark, a love letter to a complex family, and a careful catalogue of the things we pass on, and the things we must carry on our own.” —Amy Jones, author of Pebble & Dove
“The essays in this book, like Gruber’s articulation of the chimera, reveal a matrilineal narrative of split flesh, eyeballs, sour milk, creepy puppets, blood, illnesses, and grief that leave the nerves exposed. Gruber writes with the precision of a scalpel, revealing with great dexterity, care, and fierceness a beast that lives across lives and stories.” —Elizabeth Ross, author of After Birth
Bios:
ADRIENNE GRUBER is an award-winning writer originally from Saskatoon. She is the author of five chapbooks, three books of poetry, including Q & A, Buoyancy Control, and This is the Nightmare, and the creative nonfiction collection, Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes: Essays on Motherhood. She won the Antigonish Review’s 2015 Great Blue Heron poetry contest and SubTerrain’s 2017 Lush Triumphant poetry contest, placed third in Event’s 2020 creative nonfiction contest, and was the runner up in SubTerrain’s 2023 creative nonfiction contest. Both her poetry and nonfiction have been longlisted for the CBC Literary Awards. In 2012, Mimic was awarded the bp Nichol Chapbook Award. Adrienne lives with her partner and their three daughters on Nex̱wlélex̱m (Bowen Island), B.C., the traditional territory of the Coast Salish peoples.
AMY JONES is the author of the novels We're All in This Together, a national bestseller, winner of the Northern Lit Award, a finalist for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and named a Best Book of the Year by the Globe and Mail and Quill & Quire, and Every Little Piece of Me, named a Best Book of Summer by the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, and NOW Magazine. Her debut collection of stories, What Boys Like, won the Metcalf-Rooke Award and was a finalist for the ReLit Award. Her fiction has won the CBC Literary Prize for Short Fiction, appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories, and been selected as Longform's Pick of the Week. Originally from Halifax, she now lives in Hamilton.
ELIZABETH ROSS is from Vancouver Island and now lives in Hamilton. Her first book of poetry, Kingdom, came out in 2015 (Palimpsest Press). Her poetry has been anthologized in Best of the Best Canadian Poetry (Tightrope Books, 2017) and published in literary magazines across Canada.
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Jordan's Homeside Pub, 1521 Main St. E., Hamilton, ON, Canada
