David Bergen Book Launch (Days of Feasting & Rejoicing)

Name: David Bergen Book Launch (Days of Feasting & Rejoicing)
Start: 2025-09-22T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-22T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Mon Sep 22 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join David Bergen as he celebrates the launch of his new novel, Days of Feasting and Rejoicing (Goose Lane Publications). Presented as part of THIN AIR 2025, an annual fall celebration of books and writing.
https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781773103433/david-bergen/days-of-feasting-and-rejoicing
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/oH1dVzErLck
In this brilliant existential portrayal of identity, David Bergen introduces Esther Maile, an expat American living in Thailand in a house rented by the richer, more popular Christine. While on holiday in Bali, Christine is caught by an ocean wave and drowns. Esther rushes to save her, but in the chaos that ensues, the police arrive and confuse Esther for Christine.
Bergen’s mesmerizing psychological drama hums with expatriate gossip, sexual tension, unexpected violence, a passion for food, and a woman who, seemingly unhindered by questions of truth or morality, hints at the darkness in all of us.
Praised by the Montreal Gazette as “one of Canada’s best writers” and by The Globe and Mail as “brilliant and utterly convincing,” David Bergen is the bestselling author of twelve novels and two collections of short fiction. In book after book he is a writer “operating at the highest level of his craft.”
Among his most acclaimed works are The Time in Between, a national bestseller; The Age of Hope, a finalist for Canada Reads; and Out of Mind, a follow up to The Matter with Morris. He has won the McNally Robinson Book of the Year five times, and his writing has also been shortlisted for Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a Pushcart Prize. In 2018 Bergen was presented with the Writer’s Trust Matt Cohen Award: In Celebration of a Writing Life. He lives in Winnipeg.