Kirti Bhadresa and Samantha Jones
Schedule
Wed Oct 23 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8 | Calgary, AB
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Join us for a double book launch for An Astonishment of Stars by Kirti Bhadresa and Attic Rain by Samantha Jones.Grab a copy of An Astonishment of Stars here: https://shorturl.at/9iKNO
Grab a copy of Attic Rain here: https://shorturl.at/LVz0c
ABOUT AN ASTONISHMENT OF STARS
A beautifully written short story collection that charts the lives of racialized women as they navigate their relationships, aspirations, and the burdens of memory and expectations.
This collection of finely wrought short stories explores the often invisible lives of racialized women as they walk through their days, navigating mundane microaggressions, trying on ill-fitting roles, and managing emotions they never allow others to see. There is the wife who uses the name of her white husband in public. There is the mother who cleans the small-town hospital while her daughter moves to the city and suppresses their shared past. There is the teen girl who obeys her parents even as she watches her rebellious older sister slip further and further away. Each of these characters is both familiar and singular, reminding us of women we have been, of our mothers and daughters, neighbors and adversaries.
Kirti Bhadresa is a keen observer of humanity, especially of the BIPOC women whose domestic and professional work is the backbone of late-stage capitalism but whose lives receive so little attention in mainstream culture. An Astonishment of Stars is a collection that sees those who are unseen and cuts to the heart of contemporary womanhood, community collisions, and relationships both chosen and forced upon us.
ABOUT ATTIC RAIN
In Attic Rain, her debut poetry collection, Calgary based poet and writer Samantha Jones puts obsessive-compulsive disorder centre stage. Lines and words repeat, write over themselves, and read top to bottom and back again, emphasizing themes of self-doubt, anxiety, and negotiation for control. Attic Rain, is a love story nested inside an overarching narrative of self-compassion and awareness. It tours childhood and adulthood, lingering on settings and scenarios typically considered ordinary and unremarkable. The poems in this collection are part of an ongoing act of resilience and an honest account of moving through a world obsessed with normality.
ABOUT KIRTI BHADRESA
Kirti Bhadresa’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Quarantine Review, The Sprawl, and Room, and she has been a finalist for the Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Award in the category of Feature Writing. Bhadresa lives with her family in Calgary, AB, on Treaty 7 territory.
ABOUT SAMANTHA JONES
Samantha Jones is an earth scientist, writer, and copyeditor based in Moh'kins'tsis (Calgary, Alberta). Her chapbook, Site Orientation, is available from the Blasted Tree, and her writing appears in Room, THIS, CV2, GeoHumanities, Arctic, EVENT, The Capilano Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Calgary.
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1302 4 St SW #100, Calgary, AB, Canada, Alberta T2R 0X8Event Location & Nearby Stays:
