What a Pair!

Starring Catherine Hernandez & Sarah Leavitt

SATURDAY, OCT 19 @ 3:30PM $25
Memorial Park Library, Festival Hub, 2nd Floor
1221 2 St SW

Award-winning novelist Catherine Hernandez and comics genius Sarah Leavitt come together for a conversation about our shattered, flawed, shared, aching-to-be-renewed hearts.

Being deeply seen is at the core of Hernandez’s humanity, which she brings to her unflinching novel about the past and present insidiousness of rape culture, triggered by the Scarbough Stalker. Téa Mutonji describes Behind You as “a thrilling-turner with just the right amount of soft touch to get you through… an intimate and unflinching look at what it means to survive and heal and to believe again, urging us to take responsibility for own complicity and for our lives.”

Raves Hernandez about Leavitt’s visual memoir Something, Not Nothing (created over two years after the medically assisted death of the cartoonist’s partner of 22 years): “This book’s visceral illustrations and words are scratches on the prison walls of grief; a declaration of unending love to one who is lost; an apology for moving on; a messy commitment to joining the land of the living. Fellow grievers: prepare to be seen.”

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 75-minute conversation
• Libations Bar, with non-alcoholic options
• Onsite Bookseller: Owl’s Nest Books
• Post-Show signing and author selfies

ABOUT HOST JACLYN ADOMEIT

Jaclyn Adomeit lives with ink-stained fingers. She is a writer and cartoonist based in Calgary, Canada. Her work has appeared in Electric Literature’s The Commuter, Booth Journal, Room Magazine, and elsewhere. She daylights as an environmental engineer, cleaning up contaminated soil and water, and holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia.