What a Trio!

Starring Jenny Heijun Wills, Tessa Hulls & Teresa Wong

SUNDAY, OCT 20 @ 10AM $25
Memorial Park Library, Festival Hub, 2nd Floor
1221 2 St SW

Our What a Pair! format gets a plus one because, after devouring their books, we had to give Heijun Wills (Everything and Nothing at All), Hulls (Feeding Ghosts), and Wong (All Our Ordinary Stories) the opportunity to share a stage. Though they each weave a unique tapestry in their work, across countries and cultures, they write toward common threads of family, belonging, and community that are at the heart of what it means to be human.

Festival favourite Kyo Maclear wrote this about Heijun Willis’s latest, but she could easily be referring to all three books: “What does a book look like when it subverts narrow stories of kinship and ancestry, when it refuses to pander or be pinned down and possessed, when it upends crushing dichotomies, fixed definitions, forced choices? It looks like this. Defiantly wise. Unbeautifully beautiful. Capaciously loving. Mutinous.”

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 75-minute hosted conversation with visuals
• Pre-submitted audience questions
• Complimentary coffee and tea by Barrow Coffee Roasters
• Onsite Bookseller: Owl’s Nest Books
• Post-Show signing and author selfies