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SUMMARY:Mind the Gap book launch
DESCRIPTION:George Tombs is launching Mind the Gap at Brutopia\, 1219 Crescent Street\, 5 pm to 7 pm on Wednesday\, September 25th. \nThis is a crazy\, funny coming-of-age novel set in and around Montreal in the 1960s and 1970s – a dramatic comedy\, mock epic and work of magical realism. It is about Richard Grey\, a Montreal Canadiens fan who grows up watching television with a gas-mask on.Richard (don’t call him “Dick”!) deals with a very eccentric although family\, then learns about the wider world\, takes up journalism\, yearning all the while for true love. The book is available in print\, ebook and audiobook versions. George will buy the first round of drinks for guests\, do a few readings\, show a book video trailer\, and play a few excerpts from the 8.3-hour-long audiobook (he did the narration and all 45 character voices). This is George’s first novel\, and is self-published under the Evidentia Originals imprint. \nThe first of many things to come\, the book will soon be available in select Montreal bookstores. \nFor now\, it is on Amazon:\nhttps://discovermindthegap.com/ \nHomepage
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mind-the-gap-book-launch/
LOCATION:Brutopia\, 1219 Crescent Street\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H3G 2B1\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Sean Michaels Launches The Wagers
DESCRIPTION:PLEASE NOTE:\nThe evening will begin with Sean Michaels reading at Supermarché PA du Parc at 8pm. Book signing will happen immediately after across the street at The Emerald (aka the bar with no name). \n////////// \nJoin us in celebrating the launch of Sean Michaels’ latest novel! \nScotiabank Giller-winner Sean Michaels is back with his widely anticipated second novel\, The Wagers\, a deeply satisfying story of long odds\, magical heists and the dizzying gamble of life. Where does luck come from? What is it worth? And how much of it do you need to be happy? \nTheo Potiris is a grocer and a comedian who never repeats his jokes. After 15 years of open mikes\, he’s still waiting for his break–bicycling to the comedy club at night\, stacking plums at his family’s grand and ramshackle supermarket by day. His girlfriend is halfway around the world\, searching for enlightenment with a patron who happens to be the richest man on Earth\, and when two other loved-ones get struck by bolts from the blue\, Theo decides he can’t keep chasing his old dreams any longer. He resolves to trade his wishes in\, pursuing a bigger score.\nHere Sean Michaels’ novel takes a surprise left turn\, away from the price of milk and into a shabby\, beautiful\, imaginary Montreal where peacocks strut on street corners and gamblers bet on sunny days. Theo uncovers a mysterious association of sports-obsessed mathematicians\, The Rabbit’s Foot\, which is turning probability into riches\, and the vigilante No Name Gang\, who steal luck from those who have taken more than their fair share. Bursting with sheer story-telling pleasure and stylish prose\, The Wagers carries you along on wave after wave of invention–a literary motorcycle chase that soon has you wondering about the randomness of good fortune and all the ways we choose to wage our lives.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/sean-michaels-launches-the-wagers/
LOCATION:PA du Parc\, 5242 avenue du parc\, Montreal\, QC\, H2V 4G7\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Mona Eltahawy launches Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls
DESCRIPTION:Mona Eltahawy reads from and discusses her new book\, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls\, a timely manifesto that Booklist recently called “brilliant and electrifying.” In the book\, Eltahawy shows the potency of anger\, attention\, profanity\, ambition\, power\, violence\, and lust and describes how they can be utilized in a much-needed international feminist revolution. \nSEVEN NECESSARY SINS for WOMEN and GIRLS\nA bold and uncompromising feminist manifesto that shows women and girls how to defy\, disrupt\, and destroy the patriarchy by embracing the qualities they’ve been trained to avoid. \nSeizing upon the energy of the #MeToo movement\, feminist activist Mona Eltahawy advocates a muscular\, out-loud approach to teaching women and girls to harness their power through what she calls the “seven necessary sins” that women and girls are not supposed to commit: to be angry\, ambitious\, profane\, violent\, attention-seeking\, lustful\, and powerful. All the necessary “sins” that women and girls require to erupt. \nEltahawy knows that the patriarchy is alive and well\, and she is fed the hell up: Sexually assaulted during hajj at the age of fifteen. Groped on the dance floor of a night club in Montreal at fifty. Countless other injustices in the years between. Illuminating her call to action are stories of activists and ordinary women around the world–from South Africa to China\, Nigeria to India\, Bosnia to Egypt–who are tapping into their inner fury and crossing the lines of race\, class\, faith\, and gender that make it so hard for marginalized women to be heard. Rather than teaching women and girls to survive the poisonous system they have found themselves in\, Eltahawy arms them to dismantle it. \nBrilliant\, bold\, and energetic\, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is a manifesto for all feminists in the fight against patriarchy.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/mona-eltahawy-launches-seven-necessary-sins-for-women-and-girls/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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