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Join Margaret Macpherson for the Calgary launch of Tilting Towards Joy (Signature Editions). Margaret will be joined by guest reader Marion Douglas who will be reading from her novel The Game of Giants (Freehand Books). ABOUT THE BOOK
Tilting Towards Joy is a collection of interconnected stories that trace the delicate threads binding lives across continents and through time. Set against the backdrop of rural France, each story follows familiar characters through unfamiliar terrain, offering insight into how we navigate new experiences, unexpected conflicts, and shifting relationships.
Among the characters we meet are an empty-nest couple who trade their Edmonton home for a farmhouse in rural France; a young girl who exacts revenge on her siblings by serving an unconventional "dessert"; a woman who after being scammed chooses to view the situation with hope rather than pessimism; visiting friends who show their true colours; and siblings hurriedly preparing for a wildfire evacuation. Each story, grounded in a moment of personal reckoning, pulses with a sense of yearning -- tilting always toward the possibility of joy, even as it remains just out of reach.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Originally from the Northwest Territories, Margaret Macpherson has strong ties to both Western Canada and Atlantic Canada. She currently lives in Eastern Ontario. Her works of literary fiction have garnered her numerous awards including the DeBeers NorthWords Prize and the regional gold Independent Publisher Award for Best Trade Non-fiction title in Western Canada. Tilting Towards Joy is Macpherson’s ninth book.
Marion Douglas grew up in Walkerton, Ontario, and now lives in Calgary, where she worked for twenty-six years as a school psychologist with the Calgary Board of Education. The Game of Giants is her fifth novel.
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1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8
