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SUMMARY:Ann Eriksson & Gary Geddes Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join us to celebrate the launch of new books by Ann Eriksson and Gary Geddes. \nWhen: \nSunday\, March 19th\, 2 p.m \nWhere: \nIn Store! \n366 Bay Street \n\nThe Performance by Ann Eriksson \nDouglas & McIntyre \n\n \nNaive and talented\, Hana Knight is a young classical pianist who has been gifted with a musical upbringing\, a magnificent Steinway piano\, a place at Juilliard and a patron who arranges everything\, from her Manhattan apartment to her first European tour. \nIn the midst of her meteoric career\, Hana becomes increasingly aware of an unusual follower\, a homeless woman named Jacqueline who sells handmade mittens and collects empties to buy tickets to Hana’s concerts. She manages to track down the evasive woman and they develop a tenuous friendship. But as Hana learns more about Jacqueline\, the wall she has built between her past life and her new one begins to crumble. As the novel builds in tension\, a potentially career-ending encounter forces Hana to finally face the dark truth behind her privileged upbringing. \nSimultaneously lyrical and gripping\, and told with clear and powerful prose\, The Performance is eloquent in its depiction of the strikingly different worlds that coexist within a single city: the wealthy circles of Manhattan’s cultural elite\, and the stark existence of those who struggle to survive from day to day. \n\nMedicine Unbundled by Gary Geddes \nHeritage House Publishing \n\n \nAfter the publication of his critically acclaimed 2011 book Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Healing in Africa\, author Gary Geddes turned the investigative lens on his own country\, embarking on a long and difficult journey across Canada to interview Indigenous elders willing to share their experiences of segregated health care\, including their treatment in the “Indian hospitals” that existed from coast to coast for over half a century. \nThe memories recounted by these survivors—from gratuitous drug and surgical experiments to electroshock treatments intended to destroy the memory of sexual abuse—are truly harrowing\, and will surely shatter any lingering illusions about the virtues or good intentions of our colonial past. Yet\, this is more than just the painful history of a once-so-called vanishing people (a people who have resisted vanishing despite the best efforts of those in charge); it is a testament to survival\, perseverance\, and the power of memory to keep history alive and promote the idea of a more open and just future. \nReleased to coincide with the Year of Reconciliation (2017)\, Medicine Unbundled is an important and timely contribution to our national narrative. \n\n\n000000
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