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Please join us for the launch of our fabulous fall titles, featuring readings from Margaret Nowaczyk, Ariel Gordon, Ellen Chang-Richardson, Nicola Winstanley and Ben Berman Ghan.Doors open at 7:00 pm, readings start at 7:30. Books will be available for sale.
Mills Hardware is a ground-floor facility with accessible washrooms.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
๐๐๐ง๐ง๐ค๐ฌ ๐๐๐ข๐ค๐ง๐ฎ: ๐๐จ๐จ๐๐ฎ๐จ ๐ค๐ ๐ฟ๐๐จ๐๐ค๐ซ๐๐ง๐ฎ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ฎ๐ฐ๐๐๐ธ
In Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery Margaret Nowaczyk explores different facets of her life, from listening to the radio dramas of her childhood in Communist Poland to her work now as a pediatric clinical geneticist. These are beautifully crafted essays, full of hard-won truths and insights, generously shared with the reader. Whether struggling with English as a teenaged refugee or documenting the process of permanent hair dye, Nowaczyk moves seamlessly between scientific and personal writing, bridging the gap between these two areas with elegance and humour. Marrow Memory is an invitation to the reader to marvel in the unexpected beauties of human experience and the ability of language to capture that.
๐๐ช๐ฃ๐๐๐ก: ๐๐ค๐ง๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ ๐ฉ๐๐ ๐๐ง๐๐๐ฃ ๐๐ค๐ง๐๐จ๐ฉ ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐ผ๐ป
Fungal is a wide-ranging collection from Ariel Gordon where she explores her fascination with all mushrooms, not just those you can eat. In these engaging essays she takes the reader through ditches and puddles in search of morels, through the hallways of a mushroom factory, down city sidewalks and beside riverbanks as she considers things found and fungal. Along the way there are entertaining stories of the perils of mushroom identification, including mailed mushrooms that have liquefied, or terrifying thoughts of Canadian geese being fed hallucinogenic mushrooms as well as thoughtful analysis of the ways mushrooms knit our ecosystems together and the ways we knit our lives and communities together. Smart, funny and poetic, Gordon moves seamlessly from the natural world to the personal in these essays, examining the interconnectedness of all things and delighting in the rich variety of the world around her.
๐ฝ๐ก๐ค๐ค๐ ๐ฝ๐๐ก๐๐๐จ ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐น๐น๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ด-๐ฅ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฑ๐๐ผ๐ป
In this arresting debut collection Ellen Chang-Richardson writes of race, of injury and of belonging in stunning poems that fade in and out of the page. History swirls through this collection like a summer storm, as they bring their fatherโs, and their own, stories to light, writing against the background of the institutional racism of Canada, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the head tax and more. From Taiwan in the early 1990s to Oakville in the late 1990s, Toronto in the 2010s, Cambodia in the mid-1970s and Ottawa in the 2020s, Blood Belies takes the reader through time, asking them what it means to look the way we do? To carry scars? To persevere? To hope?
๐๐ข๐ค๐ ๐ ๐ฏ๐ ๐ก๐ถ๐ฐ๐ผ๐น๐ฎ ๐ช๐ถ๐ป๐๐๐ฎ๐ป๐น๐ฒ๐
Smoke is award-winning childrenโs author Nicola Winstanleyโs first work for adults and it showcases her ability to create the unforgettable characters sheโs known for. This deftly written linked short story collection moves between New Zealand and Canada following the lives of a fascinating collection of characters and considers the impact of intergenerational trauma on them from multiple points of view. Questions of responsibility and fate, and a search for understanding thread through these searing, often heartbreaking stories. Yet even though these are stories of loss, Smoke is ultimately a book about grace, one which calls not only for a rejection of guilt, but also for approaching the world with deep compassion.
๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ง๐จ ๐๐๐๐ก๐ก ๐๐ช๐ฃ ๐๐๐ ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐จ ๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ป
A gorgeously complex work of literary speculative fiction that spans centuries The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits starts in 2014 with a winged alien sowing the seeds of a strange forest on the moon. The novel then moves through humanityโs colonization of the moon and its consequences, onto a war with alien beings within a space-going whale, a cyborg mind that sleeps for hundreds of years after sheltering the city of Toronto from the worst of the war and finally a re-creation of humanity. Ghan poses thoughtful questions about artificial intelligence, humanities quest for the stars and ecological destruction in this wide-ranging story, which is held together equally by beautiful writing and deft characterization. The end result is an ambitious debut that leaves the reader contemplating many amazing possibilities for the future of our world.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Mills Hardware, 95 King St E, Hamilton, ON L8N 1A9, Canada,Hamilton, Ontario
