Wolsak & Wynn Spring 2024 Hamilton Launch

Name: Wolsak & Wynn Spring 2024 Hamilton Launch
Start: 2024-06-23T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Mills Hardware

Schedule

Sun Jun 23 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Mills Hardware | Hamilton, ON

Please join us for the launch of our fabulous fall titles, featuring readings from Margaret Nowaczyk, Ariel Gordon, Nicola Winstanley and Ben Berman Ghan.
Due to unforseen circumstances, Ellen Chang-Richardson will not be able to join us this evening.
Doors open at 7:00 pm, readings start at 7:30. Books will be available for sale.
Mills Hardware is a ground-floor facility with accessible washrooms.
ABOUT THE BOOKS
𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙬 𝙈𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙮: 𝙀𝙨𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗡𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗰𝘇𝘆𝗸
In Marrow Memory: Essays of Discovery Margaret Nowaczyk explores different facets of her life, from listening to the radio dramas of her childhood in Communist Poland to her work now as a pediatric clinical geneticist. These are beautifully crafted essays, full of hard-won truths and insights, generously shared with the reader. Whether struggling with English as a teenaged refugee or documenting the process of permanent hair dye, Nowaczyk moves seamlessly between scientific and personal writing, bridging the gap between these two areas with elegance and humour. Marrow Memory is an invitation to the reader to marvel in the unexpected beauties of human experience and the ability of language to capture that.
𝙁𝙪𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙡: 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙧𝙗𝙖𝙣 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗼𝗻
Fungal is a wide-ranging collection from Ariel Gordon where she explores her fascination with all mushrooms, not just those you can eat. In these engaging essays she takes the reader through ditches and puddles in search of morels, through the hallways of a mushroom factory, down city sidewalks and beside riverbanks as she considers things found and fungal. Along the way there are entertaining stories of the perils of mushroom identification, including mailed mushrooms that have liquefied, or terrifying thoughts of Canadian geese being fed hallucinogenic mushrooms as well as thoughtful analysis of the ways mushrooms knit our ecosystems together and the ways we knit our lives and communities together. Smart, funny and poetic, Gordon moves seamlessly from the natural world to the personal in these essays, examining the interconnectedness of all things and delighting in the rich variety of the world around her.
𝘽𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴-𝗥𝗶𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀𝗼𝗻
In this arresting debut collection Ellen Chang-Richardson writes of race, of injury and of belonging in stunning poems that fade in and out of the page. History swirls through this collection like a summer storm, as they bring their father’s, and their own, stories to light, writing against the background of the institutional racism of Canada, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the head tax and more. From Taiwan in the early 1990s to Oakville in the late 1990s, Toronto in the 2010s, Cambodia in the mid-1970s and Ottawa in the 2020s, Blood Belies takes the reader through time, asking them what it means to look the way we do? To carry scars? To persevere? To hope?
𝙎𝙢𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝗯𝘆 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝗹𝗲𝘆
Smoke is award-winning children’s author Nicola Winstanley’s first work for adults and it showcases her ability to create the unforgettable characters she’s known for. This deftly written linked short story collection moves between New Zealand and Canada following the lives of a fascinating collection of characters and considers the impact of intergenerational trauma on them from multiple points of view. Questions of responsibility and fate, and a search for understanding thread through these searing, often heartbreaking stories. Yet even though these are stories of loss, Smoke is ultimately a book about grace, one which calls not only for a rejection of guilt, but also for approaching the world with deep compassion.
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙔𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙎𝙝𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙪𝙣 𝙇𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙍𝙖𝙗𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝗯𝘆 𝗕𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗚𝗵𝗮𝗻
A gorgeously complex work of literary speculative fiction that spans centuries The Years Shall Run Like Rabbits starts in 2014 with a winged alien sowing the seeds of a strange forest on the moon. The novel then moves through humanity’s colonization of the moon and its consequences, onto a war with alien beings within a space-going whale, a cyborg mind that sleeps for hundreds of years after sheltering the city of Toronto from the worst of the war and finally a re-creation of humanity. Ghan poses thoughtful questions about artificial intelligence, humanities quest for the stars and ecological destruction in this wide-ranging story, which is held together equally by beautiful writing and deft characterization. The end result is an ambitious debut that leaves the reader contemplating many amazing possibilities for the future of our world.