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SUMMARY:Jacob Wren Launches Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 19\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nJoin Book*hug\, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, and Jacob Wren to launch his latest novel\, DRY YOUR TEARS TO PERFECT YOUR AIM. The author will appear in conversation with poet Alexei Perry Cox and the author will sign following the reading and conversation. \n\n\n\nWHEN: Thursday September 19th\, 2024WHERE: Espace Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Rue Bernard O \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim\n\n\n\nWhat are the best ways to support political struggles that aren’t your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim is a remarkably original\, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time. \n\n\n\nA depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it’s a bad idea\, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting\, he stumbles into a small strip of land that’s being reimagined as a grassroots\, feminist\, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective\, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile\, women in his life-from this reimagined society and elsewhere-underscore truths hidden in plain sight. \n\n\n\nIn these pages\, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other\, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJACOB WREN makes literature\, performances\, and exhibitions. His books include Revenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed; Polyamorous Love Song (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail best book of 2014); Rich and Poor (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail best book of 2016); and Authenticity is a Feeling. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly would like to acknowledge that our events and bookstores are located on the unceded territory of the Kanien’kehá:ka. Many of us refer to Montreal as our home\, but it is named Tiohtiá:ke. It has always been a gathering place for many First Nations and continues to be home to a diverse population of Indigenous peoples. We are grateful that creating and sharing stories has been a part of this land for thousands of years. \n\n\n\nEspace Drawn & Quarterly Accessibility information:\n\n\n\n\nOur event space uses StopGap.ca ramps in an effort to encourage accessibility. Both the step at the entrance\, followed by a half step and a door have StopGap ramps. The door opens inward and is not automated. Once inside\, there are no additional steps.\n\n\n\nThere is one non-gendered bathroom.\n\n\n\nIt is not a sober space\, our events sometimes offer alcohol.\n\n\n\nPlease email events@drawnandquarterly.com if you have any accessibility needs we can accommodate (for example\, saving you a seat if you have mobility needs) for you to be able to enjoy our events\, worry-free\, and feel free to contact us for any concerns you may have
URL:https://qwf.org/event/jacob-wren-launches-dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim/
LOCATION:Espace Drawn and Quarterly\, 176 rue Bernard Ouest\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 2K2\, Canada
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