BOOK LAUNCH MEETING	BOOK TALK GROUPS
Wednesday July 3, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.	Wednesday August 7, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

David Chariandy is an award winging author. Brother won the 2017 rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize and the 2018 Toronto Book Award.
 

With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes the reader inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared, and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home….

Brother is a coming-of-age story propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun.” (Penguin Random House)

Book Club participants will meet twice. Initially for a brief launch meeting Wednesday July 3, 2024 (10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.) prior to reading the text and then again for a book talk Wednesday August 7, 2024 (10:00 a.m.-noon.).

Participants are required to obtain their own copy of the book in advance of the launch meeting. Registration is required and space is limited.


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BOOK LAUNCH MEETING	BOOK TALK GROUPS
Thursday July 4, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.	Thursday August 8, 2024 at 10:00 a.m.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

An inspirational story of accepting and embracing two trans people in a family--a family who shows what's possible when you "lead with love."

All Rowan Jetté Knox ever wanted was to enjoy a stable life. She never knew her biological father, and while her mother and stepfather were loving parents, the situation was sometimes chaotic. At school, she was bullied mercilessly, and at the age of fourteen, she entered a counselling program for alcohol addiction and was successful.

While still a teenager, she met the love of her life. They were wed at 20, and the first of three children followed shortly. Jetté Knox finally had the stability she craved--or so it seemed. Their middle child struggled with depression and avoided school. The author was unprepared when the child she knew as her son came out as transgender at the age of eleven. Shocked, but knowing how important it was to support her daughter, Jetté Knox became an ardent advocate for trans rights.

But the story wasn't over. For many years, the author had coped with her spouse's moodiness, but that chronic unhappiness was taking a toll on their marriage. A little over a year after their child came out, her partner also came out as transgender. Knowing better than most what would lie ahead, Jetté Knox searched for positive examples of marriages surviving transition. When she found no role models, she determined that her family would become one.

The shift was challenging, but slowly the family members noticed that they were becoming happier and more united. Told with remarkable candour and humour, and full of insight into the challenges faced by trans people, Love Lives Here is a beautiful story of transition, frustration, support, acceptance, and, of course, love.

(Penguin Random House Canada)
 

Book Club participants will meet twice. Initially for a brief launch meeting Thursday July 4, 2024 (10:00 a.m.-11:00 a.m.) prior to reading the text and then again for a book talk Thursday August 8, 2024 (10:00 a.m.-noon).

Participants are required to obtain their own copy of the book in advance of the launch meeting. Registration is required and space is limited.

Register Now