Offsite Book Sales - Ian Williams' Reproduction
2019-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Vancouver)
Join us as we sell books offsite at the launch for Ian Williams’ debut novel, Reproduction.
“In this novel about fathers who vanish and the families that spring up in their place, the Vancouver-based poet deftly weaves together the voices of a 14-year-old Black boy, a 16-year-old white girl and a motley crew of middle-aged parents who are all struggling to do right by their children—with mixed results.”— CHATELAINE Magazine
“Reproduction’s genius is its weaponized empathy, the precision-etched intensity of Williams’ gritty, witty, wholly unsentimental exploration of the collision of human hearts and the messy aftermath. Love, and its lack, form a spectrum that the characters bounce between, searching for connections, redemption and meaning.”— EDEN ROBINSON, author of Monkey Beach and Son of a Trickster
“The startling brilliance of Ian Williams stems from his restlessness with form. His ceaseless creativity in sussing out the right patterning of story, the right vernacular nuance, the right diagram and deftly dropped reference—all in service of vividly illuminating the intermingled comedy and trauma of family.”
— DAVID CHARIANDY, author of Brother
Jan 24th, 6-8PM at the Vancouver Film School Cafe – 390 W Hastings Street.
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Miriam Clavier and John Donlan: A Book Launch and Reading
2019-01-24 18:30 - 19:30
Join Massy Books and local authors Miriam Clavir and John Donlan for the launch of Clavir’s new mystery Fate Accompli: Murder in Quebec City, and readings form Donlan’s new poetry collection, Out All Day. Lyric Canadian nature poetry and a Quebec City murder; what’s not to like?
January 24th
6:30-7:30
Free Entry, Refreshments provided.
About Miriam Clavir
Miriam Clavir is a writer and a professional art and cultural materials conservator. She is the retired senior conservator at the Museum of Anthropology and has authored a seminal work and many articles in conservation. Fate Accompli is her second mystery novel. She has also published literary short stories.
Fate Accompli: Archeology in a vibrant city reveals a mystery in its past and a horrid crime in its present. Bérénice “Berry” Cates, preserving artifacts on the dig, tracks down information while, like Quebec City’s ancient stone Golden Dog, she waits for her moment of revenge, when she can “bite him who has bitten me”.
About John Donlan:
John Donlan inhabits and reimagines wilderness to reveal how much nature is a part of us. The poems in Out All Day evoke our sense of loss and mourning as we live through the sixth extinction of the natural world.
Out All Day is John Donlan’s sixth poetry collection. He is a former public service librarian at the Vancouver Public Library, and he and Miriam live in East Vancouver.
