Wordfest presents Barbara Gowdy – $20

18 May 2017
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
John Dutton Theatre, Calgary Public Library, 616 Macleod Trail SE
[gdlr_space height="20px"] [gdlr_button href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wordfest-presents-barbara-gowdy-tickets-31972659084" target="_self" size="medium" background="#f2674a" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] Meet the author and explore the limits of the human mind. Barbara Gowdy's latest fictional tour de force, Little Sister, is an impassioned tale of a woman's determination to help a stranger, and to come to terms with a death for which she always felt responsible. Barbara Gowdy is an internationally acclaimed author of seven previous books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels. This Wordfest event is presented in partnership with the Calgary Public Library and includes an on-stage interview, reading and book signing. Hosted by Mojo Anderson.

About Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy has been a finalist three times for the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and twice for the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1996, she received the Marian Engel Award and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. A Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow, Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto.

About Little Sister by Barbara Gowdy

The farthest place you can go is closer than you can imagine. Rose is a sensible woman, thirty-four years old. Together with her widowed mother, Fiona, she runs a small repertory cinema in a big city. Fiona is in the early stages of dementia and is beginning to make painful references to Rose’s sister, Ava, who died young in an accident. It is high summer, and a band of storms, unusual for their frequency and heavy downpour, is rolling across the city. Something unusual is also happening to Rose. As the storms break overhead, she loses consciousness and has vivid, realistic dreams—not only about being someplace else, but also of living someone else’s life. Is Rose merely dreaming? Or is she, in fact, inside the body of another woman? Disturbed and entranced, she tries to find out what is happening to her.

Praise for Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy's portrayal of oddball family 'shimmers on the page.’ --Toronto Star One of the most inventive and important writers Canada has ever produced. --Globe and Mail Gowdy's dazzling new novel was a hard-won creation… ranks among her very best. --Montreal Gazette A thrilling, captivating exploration of guilt, the female psyche, and the bonds of womanhood.  --Publishers’ Weekly Gowdy sucks readers into this suspenseful, supernatural story like a strong wind in a squall. --Kirkus Gowdy's dazzling new novel was a hard-won creation… ranks among her very best. --Montreal Gazette [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ] [gdlr_button href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/wordfest-presents-barbara-gowdy-tickets-31972659084" target="_self" size="medium" background="#f2674a" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button] CPL-logo-Yann-MartelHarper-Collins-web-2017
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Mojo Anderson

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