Name: BOOK LAUNCH - End Times by Michelle Syba
Start: 2023-05-04T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-05-04
Location: Librairie De Stiil Bookstore

BOOK LAUNCH - End Times by Michelle Syba

Freehand Books

Join us for the book launch celebration of Michelle Syba's End Times, an astounding collection of stories.

Librairie De Stiil Bookstore

J﻿oin us for the book launch celebration of Montreal author Michelle Syba&#x27;s terrific debut, End Times. End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.T﻿his evening will be hosted by Nisha Coleman. Wine will be served! Books will be for sale courtesy of Librarie De Stiil Bookstore. Be sure to get a signature from Michelle! -﻿-------------------A﻿BOUT THE BOOK: End Times is an astounding debut collection of stories about evangelical culture, ideological polarization, and the messiness and mysteries of humanity.A Vancouver mother convinces her opioid-addicted son to attend church, and sparks her own personal emergency. A jet-setting consultant tries to help a rural fundamentalist teen, while her own secular life unravels in Toronto, Davos, and beyond. An atheist doctor attempts to expose a hipster megachurch pastor as a closeted hypocrite.At a time when the end feels nigh for many, End Times brings together an expansive cast of the devout and the dissenting, the elderly and the young, immigrants, elites, the burned-out, and the lonely, exploring our hidden anxieties and longings.A﻿BOUT THE AUTHOR:Michelle Syba was born in Toronto and grew up Pentecostal. In university, she left the faith and became a zealot for literature, completing a PhD in English at Harvard. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly, Image, McSweeney&#x27;s Internet Tendency, and elsewhere. She lives in Montreal.

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