Book Launch: Celestina's House by Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez

Join us at the Centre for Social Innovation on Spadina for the launch of Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez‘s debut novel, Celestina’s House (Dundurn Press). The author will be joined for a conversation with Thom Ernst — author, film critic and former host of Saturday Night at the Movies

The event will begin at 6pm. Books will be for sale from Another Story Bookshop.

Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Arts Council, to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. Between April 2016 and March 2024, Toronto Lit Up has presented over 200 events featuring over 250 Toronto authors and illustrators. Toronto Lit Up book launches take place throughout the year at venues across the city. They are open to the public and free to attend. Click here for more information.

About the book:

The House of the Spirits meets Mexican Gothic in a tale of love and betrayal, belonging and exile, and the supernatural forces that pervade life in the Philippines.
The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart.
It begins with an act of betrayal that destroys the tenuous bonds of Celestina Errantes’s family. For years afterwards, Celestina longs for an escape from her unhappy home. Then an unexpected gift from her wealthy Lolo offers that chance: a long-forsaken property in Manila’s bohemian district, close to where ladies of the evening ply their trade. It is no place for a proper young woman, but this house, even with its ghosts, makes Celestina feel at home.
Celestina tears into life, losing herself in the pleasures of the night, but soon finds that the emptiness within her is not easily filled. When finally a true chance at happiness promises to save her, a sinister voice from the past returns, threatening to destroy it all.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK

Host or Publisher Dundurn Press