Junction Reads with Margaret Sweatman

Junction Reads is an online reading series that offers one on one conversations and readings with authors of great prose.

Junction Reads

Junction Reads with Margaret Sweatman, author of THE GUNSMITH'S DAUGHTER

J﻿oin us for a reading and conversation with <a href="http://margaretsweatman.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Margaret Sweatman,</a> author of The Gunsmith's Daughter from <a href="https://gooselane.com/products/the-gunsmiths-daughter" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Goose Lane Editions.</a>A﻿bout The Gunsmith's Daughter:"1971. Lilac Welsh lives an isolated life with her parents at Rough Rock on the Winnipeg River. Her father, Kal, stern and controlling, has built his wealth by designing powerful guns and ammunition. He’s on the cusp of producing a .50 calibre assault rifle that can shoot down an airplane with a single bullet, when a young stranger named Gavin appears at their door, wanting to meet him before enlisting for the war in Vietnam. Gavin’s arrival sparks an emotional explosion in Lilac’s home and inspires her to begin her own life as a journalist, reporting on the war that’s making her family rich.""Margaret Sweatman is a playwright, performer, and the author of six novels, including The Gunsmith’s Daughter. Her novels have won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award, the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and the Sunburst Award for Excellence in Canadian Literature of the Fantastic. She lives in Winnipeg."T﻿his is a PWYC event with ALL proceeds going to the author. Tickets are $0-$20.R﻿egister and you might win your own copy of the novel from Goose Lane Editions.

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