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Time: 19:00 - 21:00

Date: 11 December, 2019

Cost: Free

Event Category: Book Launch , Community Events

Website: https://www.facebook.com/events/669571443567240/

Location: La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly—Montréal, Québec Phone: 514-279-2279 Venue WebsiteView map

Morgan Parker (Magical Negro, There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce) talks about her first young adult novel, Who Put This Song On?, in an on-stage interview with author Monique Polak (The Taste of Rain).

ABOUT THE BOOK :
In the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and Girl in Pieces, comes poet Morgan Parker’s pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored.

Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she’s in therapy. She can’t count the number of times she’s been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her “weird” outfits, and been told she’s not “really” black. Also, she’s spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there’s that, too.

Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat—and it’s telling them how to feel, who to vote for, what to believe. Morgan wonders, when can she turn this song off and begin living for herself?
Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries, this incredible debut by award-winning poet Morgan Parker will make readers stand up and cheer for a girl brave enough to live life on her own terms—and for themselves.

 

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