Wordfest presents Craig Davidson + Festival Preview

Wordfest presents Craig Davidson + Festival Preview
Wordfest presents Craig Davidson + Festival Preview
Sep 11 @ 6 PM - 8:30 PM MT 
Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor
1221 2nd Street SW

Don't miss this deliciously heartwarming and haunted evening with "one of this country's great kinetic writers" (Globe and Mail). The Saturday Night Ghost Club is Craig Davidson's first new novel since his bestselling, Giller-shortlisted Cataract City and cements his reputation as Canada’s Stephen King. This event kicks off with an exclusive "reveal" of The Imaginarium, coming to Wordfest's 23rd Annual Reader's Festival from October 8 to 15, 2018, hosted by Shelley Youngblut, followed by a conversation, reading, audience Q&A and book signing with Craig Davidson (hosted by Stephen Hunt).

About Craig Davidson

Craig Davidson was born in Toronto and grew up in St. Catharines, Ontario. He has published four previous books of literary fiction, including Rust and Bone, which was made into a Golden Globe-nominated film; and Cataract City, which was short-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Trillium Book Prize, and was a national bestseller. His memoir, Precious Cargo: My Year Driving the Kids on School Bus 3077, also a bestseller, was shortlisted for Canada Reads.

About The Saturday Night Ghost Club

When neurosurgeon Jake Baker operates, he knows he's handling more than a patient's delicate brain tissue—he's altering their seat of consciousness, their golden vault of memory. And memory, Jake knows well, can be a tricky thing.

When growing up in 1980s Niagara Falls, a.k.a. Cataract City--a seedy but magical, slightly haunted place—one of Jake's closest confidantes was his uncle Calvin, a sweet but eccentric misfit enamor ed of occult artefacts and outlandish conspiracy theories. The summer Jake turned twelve, Calvin invited him to join the "Saturday Night Ghost Club"--a seemingly light-hearted project to investigate some of Cataract City's more macabre urban myths. Over the course of that life-altering summer, Jake not only fell in love and began to imagine his future, he slowly, painfully came to realize that his uncle's preoccupation with chilling legends sprang from something buried so deep in his past that Calvin himself was unaware of it.

By turns heartwarming and devastating, written with the skill and cinematic immediacy that has made Craig Davidson a star, The Saturday Night Ghost Club is a bravura performance from one of our most remarkable literary talents: a note-perfect novel that poignantly examines the fragility and resilience of mind, body and human spirit, as well as the haunting mutability of memory and story.