Zilla Jones Book Launch (The World So Wide)

Name: Zilla Jones Book Launch (The World So Wide)
Start: 2025-04-23T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-23T20:00:00-05:00
Location: McNally Robinson Booksellers

Schedule

Wed Apr 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

McNally Robinson Booksellers | Winnipeg, MB

Join Zilla Jones for the launch of her debut novel The World So Wide (Cormorant Books). Featuring a reading and a conversation hosted by Chimwemwe Undi, followed by a book signing.
(Pre-order The World So Wide here: https://www.mcnallyrobinson.com/9781770867758/zilla-jones/the-world-so-wide)
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/zNTl3zGYTV8
Felicity Alexander is supposed to be charming audiences at New York's Metropolitan Opera, not placed under house arrest in Grenada in October 1983 when the Americans invade.
Arriving in London to study opera, she finds early success and joy on stage, and a sense of belonging in Claude Buckingham's arms. Felicity and Claude’s intense affair cannot survive their competing destinies. Claude brings revolution to Grenada; Felicity devotes herself to music. Her career in ascendance, Felicity accepts an invitation to perform in Grenada. The red sky of revolution calls to her almost as much as the hope of Claude’s embrace. But their reunion is interrupted by a coup. Surrounded by soldiers and guns, Felicity’s voice is born anew. She has found her cause.
Zilla Jones is an African-Canadian anti-racist educator, lawyer, mother, and singer of Caribbean, Chinese, and European heritage, writing on Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg). She was born in the UK and now lives in Winnipeg. She is a winner of the Journey Prize, a finalist for The Writers’ Trust Bronwen Wallace Emerging Writers Award, and a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her writing has appeared in many literary journals including The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, The Malahat Review, and Bayou Magazine.