Name: Mary Soderstrom Book Launch
Start: 2026-03-15T14:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-03-15T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9

𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 and 𝐃𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐧 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 present a launch for 𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 by 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐦.
Join us as author 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐒𝐨𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐦 discusses and signs her new book, 𝑩𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝑾𝒆 𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒕 live and in-person at Paragraphe.
Admission is free.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:
Safeguarding collective wisdom is a powerful tool for civilization to overcome the major upheavals ahead.
Climate change, civil unrest, wars: How will we make it through the tough times looming before us? By remembering, Mary Soderstrom argues. Ours is not the first time in history when catastrophe has threatened societies, and using examples from China, the Roman Empire, and North American Indigenous cultures, Soderstrom shows how memory can lead the way toward the future. She begins by examining how memory works and then details how we store our collective memories in libraries and archives, as well as in the vastness of the digital universe.
In part an entertaining history of knowledge and where we keep it, Before We Forget allays fears and encourages people to develop strategiesfor safeguarding collective and individual wisdom, which we will need to meet the challenges ahead.
𝐀𝐁𝐏𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑:
Mary Soderstrom is a writer with eight works of non-fiction, three short story collections, six novels, and one children’s book to her credit. Before We Forget: How Remembering Will Get Us Through the Next 75 Years is her nineteenth book. She lives in Montreal.