Anita Slominska Book Launch
Schedule
Wed Jun 03 2026 at 05:00 pm to 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
2220 McGill College Avenue, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3A3P9 | Montreal, QC
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𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐞 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 and 𝐌𝐜𝐆𝐢𝐥𝐥-𝐐𝐮𝐞𝐞𝐞𝐧𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 prseent a book launch for 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 by 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐚.Join us and author 𝐀𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐥𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐚 launches her book 𝑶𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑬𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔: 𝑶𝒓𝒈𝒂𝒏 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 live and in-person.
Admission is free.
Refreshmensts will be served.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊:
In this raw and intimate memoir Anita Slominska recounts her sister Shauna’s eighteen-month wait for a liver transplant that failed to take place in time to save her life. Shauna’s death, at age twenty-nine, defied the usual redemptive promise of a life-saving transplant and forced Slominska to confront difficult questions: Why was she so unprepared for the devastating loss of her sister? Why do so many chronicles of organ transplantation celebrate survival, while few acknowledge failure and loss? Who are the people who die waiting, and why are their stories untold?
Weaving together personal memoir with in-depth research, Other Endings explores the triumphalist narrative of transplantation as medical progress and happy ending. This narrative, Slominska argues, does not capture the complicated, messy, and imperfect reality, nor does it make room for the experiences of hope and anguish involved with waitlist deaths, which are more common than we realize. Incorporating excerpts from Shauna’s online journal as well as reflections on her own role as her sister’s caregiver, Slominska challenges readers to imagine what it is like for patients and families to experience a wait for a transplant that ends in death.
A profound contribution to narrative medicine, Other Endings excavates societal beliefs that shape our expectations of science and medicine, raising critical questions about why and how we tell illness stories. Throughout, Shauna remains central: the indelibly human face of one person who died waiting.
𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐔𝐓 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐀𝐔𝐓𝐇𝐎𝐑:
Anita Slominska is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre and the Institute of Health Sciences Education at McGill University.
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