Brittany Penner Book Launch (Children Like Us)

Name: Brittany Penner Book Launch (Children Like Us)
Start: 2025-09-05T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-05T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Fri Sep 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Brittany Penner for the Winnipeg launch of Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home (Doubleday Canada). Featuring a conversation hosted by Shelagh Rogers.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9780385688000/brittany-penner/children-like-us
This event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream: https://youtube.com/live/APHtZMXx8dc
A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found.
Children Like Us asks difficult questions about family, identity, belonging and cultural continuity. What happens when you find what you're looking for, but it can't offer you everything you need? How do you reckon with the truth of your own story when you've always been told you're lucky and should be grateful? What does it mean to belong when you feel torn between cultures? And how does a person learn to hold the pain and the grief, as well as the triumphs, the joys and the beauty, allowing none to eclipse the others?
Brittany Penner is an author, practicing family physician and lecturer with the University of Manitoba Max Rady College of Medicine, and has been a keynote speaker at the University of Manitoba. She is currently completing a Master's of Liberal Arts at Harvard University. Her personal essays have appeared in Salon, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's, Huffington Post Canada, This Magazine and Canadian Family Physician, and typically revolve around the complex nature of identity and family dynamics. She lives in Manitoba.