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Join us for the launch of MAY IT HAVE A HAPPY ENDING, by Minelle Mahtani! In conversation with David Chariandy.Join us for the launch of MAY IT HAVE A HAPPY ENDING, by Minelle Mahtani! In conversation with David Chariandy.
Masks are strongly encouraged and will be available.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
For readers of Crying in H Mart and In the Dream House , a searing, intimate and blisteringly honest memoir about mothers and daughters, grief and healing, and finding your voice. Minelle Mahtani had taken a leap of faith. A new mother in a new life, she'd moved across the country for love, and soon found herself facing the exciting and terrifying prospect of hosting her own radio show. But as she began to find her place in the majority white newsroom, she was handed devastating news: her Iranian mother had been diagnosed with tongue cancer. Just as Minelle was finding her voice, her mother was losing hers. What does it mean to amplify the voices of others while the stories of your ancestors are being buried in your mother's mouth? Why do we cling to superstition and luck when we’ve lost all faith in healing those we love? And how do we juggle bearing the burden of looking after an ill parent when we are trying to parent our own children? In exquisitely lyrical and inventive prose, Mahtani recounts the experience so many of us recognize: a life calibrated through calculating when to speak and when to be silent in a world that feels like it forces us to be broken.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Minelle Mahtani is an associate professor at the Institute for Social Justice at the University of British Columbia. She was formerly a radio host, a national television news journalist at the CBC and a journalism and geography professor at the University of Toronto. Her work in radio has won a Canadian Ethnic Media Association award for building relationships between ethnic communities and Indigenous communities, and a British Columbia Association of Broadcasters award for best community service reporting. She also won a Digital Publishing Award for an essay she published in The Walrus , which became the basis for her debut memoir, May It Have a Happy Ending . She lives in Vancouver.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR:
David Chariandy lives in Vancouver and teaches literature and creative writing in the department of English at Simon Fraser University. His first novel, Soucouyant, was nominated for several prizes, including the Governor General’s Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. His second novel, Brother , was also nominated for several prizes, winning the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, and the Toronto Book Prize. Brother was also named a book of the year by The Globe and Mail , The National Post, The Toronto Star , The Montreal Gazette, The New York City Public Library, Kirkus Reviews , Esquire Magazine , and The Guardian . His most recent book is a memoir entitled I’ve Been Meaning To Tell You: A Letter To My Daughter . David’s writings have been published internationally and translated into a dozen languages. In 2019, he was awarded Yale University’s Windham-Campbell Prize for fiction.
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