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SUMMARY:Marina Endicott Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Please join Ben McNally Books and Knopf Canada to celebrate the launch of Marina Endicott’s new novel\, The Difference. Marina will be joined in conversation to discuss the novel. \nBooks will be for sale and a signing will conclude the event. \nWhen: \nWednesday September 25 \n6 to 8pm \nWhere: \nDora Keogh \n141 Danforth Avenue \nCost: \nThis is a free event. Please confirm your attendance through Eventbrite. \n\n \nFrom one of our most critically acclaimed and beloved storytellers comes a sweeping novel set on board the Morning Light\, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the south pacific in 1912. \nKay and Thea are half-sisters\, separated in age by almost twenty years\, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies\, Thea returns to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister\, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing voyage to the other side of the world. \nAt the heart of The Difference is a crystallizing moment in Micronesia: Thea\, still mourning a miscarriage\, forms a bond with a young boy from a remote island and takes him on board as her own son. Over time\, the repercussions of this act force Kay\, who considers the boy her brother\, to examine her own assumptions–which are increasingly at odds with those of society around her–about what is forgivable and what is right. \nInspired by a true story\, Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder\, and in its darkness\, prejudice and difficulty\, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay’s examination of the idea of “difference”–between people\, classes\, continents\, cultures\, customs and species. The Difference is a breathtaking novel by a writer with an astonishing ability to bring past worlds vividly to life while revealing the moral complexity of our own. \n\n \nMarina Endicott‘s novel Good to a Fault won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book\, Canada and the Caribbean\, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her next\, The Little Shadows\, was short-listed for the Governor General’s award and long-listed for the Giller Prize\, as was her last book\, Close to Hugh. Endicott lives in Alberta most of the time. \n000000
URL:https://benmcnallybooks.com/event/marina-endicott-book-launch/
LOCATION:The Dora Keogh\, 141 Danforth Ave\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M4K 1N2\, Canada
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