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SUMMARY:Carmen Maria Machado launches IN THE DREAM HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening with National Book Award Finalist & Guggenheim Fellow Carmen Maria Machado \nLibrairie Drawn & Quarterly presents: \nCarmen Maria Machado launches In The Dream House\nLa Sala Rossa\, 4848 St Laurent Blvd\, Montreal\, QC H2T 1R5\nlundi 9 décembre à 19h \nTickets: \nBook + Ticket Combo: $24.95+ tx\n*Includes 1 General Admission + 1 Copy of IN THE DREAM HOUSE by Carmen Maria Machado (to be picked up at the event) \nGeneral Admission : $15+tx \n(Présentation en anglais) \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nCarmen Maria Machado is the author of Her Body and Other Parties \, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wife. \nABOUT THE BOOK\nA revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties. \nIn the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad\, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman\, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \nAnd it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope–haunted houses\, erotica\, bildungsroman–in which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence\, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian\, and widens the view with essayistic explorations about the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \nMachado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit\, playfulness\, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings\, Star Trek and Disney villains\, fairy tales\, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching\, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/carmen-maria-machado-launches-in-the-dream-house/
LOCATION:La Sala Rossa\, 4848 St. Laurent Boulevard\, Montreal\, Quebec\, H2T 2R5\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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SUMMARY:Morgan Parker Launches Who Put This Song On? w/ Monique Polak
DESCRIPTION: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). \nABOUT THE BOOK :\nIn 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. \nTrapped 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. \nLately\, 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?\nLoosely 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.
URL:https://qwf.org/event/morgan-parker-launches-who-put-this-song-on-w-monique-polak/
LOCATION:La Petite Librairie Drawn & Quarterly\, 176 Bernard West\, Montréal\, Québec\, H2T2K2\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Community Events
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