Name: I Won’t Feel This Way Forever with Kim Spencer
Start: 2025-10-19T11:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-19T12:00:00-07:00
Location: Massy Books

$I Won\u2019t Feel This Way Forever with Kim Spencer$

Join Massy Books, Orca Book Publishers, and Kim Spencer for the launch of, I Won’t Feel This Way Forever, on Oct 19th at 11 am!
About this Event

Join Massy Books, Orca Book Publishers, Talking Stick Festival, and Kim Spencer for the launch of, I Won’t Feel This Way Forever, on Oct 19th at 11 am!

Registration is free but is required.

Venue:

The event will be hosted at Massy Books, 229. E. Georgia St., Vancouver, BC.

The venue has a gender neutral bathroom.

Please refrain from wearing scents or heavy perfumes.

Covid Protocols: Masks keep our community safe and are recommended. We ask if you are showing symptoms, that you stay home. Thank you kindly.

Books will be for sale at the event!

About I Won’t Feel This Way Forever :

It’s the summer of 1989, and Mia is on her own—adjusting to life without her ex-best friend, Lara.

Summer vacation starts off well enough as Mia binges MTV and learns how to jar fish with her aunty and uncle. Then her grandma starts feeling unwell. At first, Mia isn’t too worried, but when a call comes in from the clinic to say her grandmother has to go to the hospital in Vancouver, everyone realizes this is serious.

Mia and her mom and aunties head to the city to be by her grandmother’s side. Mia mostly ping-pongs from the hospital to the motel, but she also gets to see some of the city and eat (too much) takeout. She even joins a basketball camp at the Friendship Centre, where she meets a teen coach who inspires her to get back into the game she loves and delve deeper into what it means to be Indigenous. As time passes, Mia’s grandmother's health doesn’t improve, and she has to face the fact that her beloved grandma might not get better.

About Kim Spencer:

Kim Spencer is an award-winning, bestselling author. Her debut novel, Weird Rules to Follow, received a Kirkus starred review and was a 2023 Governor General's Literary Award finalist. The book won multiple awards, including a 2023 TD Canadian Children’s Literature Award, a 2023 Jean Little First-Novel Award and a 2024 Pacific Northwest Book Award. It was also on the IBBY 2024 Honour List and the USBBY Outstanding International Books List in 2023. Kim is from the Gitxaała Nation and lives in northwest BC.