Junction Reads with Elizabeth Ruth, Jessica Westhead, and Nathan Whitlock.

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

Junction Reads

Our first in person event of the year at TYPE Books Junction

Join us for readings, conversation and mingling at <a href="https://typebooks.ca/" title="https://typebooks.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">TYPE Books in the Junction</a>, but if you cannot be there in person, you can access the Zoom link here for the livestream.January 28, 6:00pm ET at 2887 Dundas Street West in the heart of the Junction, we will sit among books, listening to three very talented authors.This is a PWYC event. ALL proceeds go to the authors. You can purchase a ticket here or pay cash at the door, or donate through <a href="https://paypal.me/junctionreads" title="https://paypal.me/junctionreads" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">our PayPal.</a>__________________________________________________________________________________________________________<a href="https://www.elizabethruth.com/" title="https://www.elizabethruth.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Elizabeth Ruth </a>returns with her latest novel, SEMI-DETACHED from <a href="https://www.cormorantbooks.com/" title="https://www.cormorantbooks.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cormorant Books.</a>"In December 2013, an ice storm buries Toronto as realtor Laura Keys prepares to sell a one-of-a-kind house on behalf of its comatose owner. Haunting Laura, and longing to be invited in, is a mysterious teenage girl with a Scottish Terrier tucked into her coat. As Laura readies the house for showing, she learns more about its owner, Edna “Eddie” Ferguson. Leading up to the Great Snowstorm of 1944, Eddie, a brickmaker, enters into a passionate yet ill-fated affair with her boss’s daughter. While uncovering the past, Laura navigates both the death of her mother and a troubled marriage straining under the weight of her infertility."<a href="https://www.jessicawesthead.com/" title="https://www.jessicawesthead.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Jessica Westhead </a>will read from her incfredible colleciton of stories, AVALANCHE from <a href="https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/avalanche/" title="https://invisiblepublishing.com/product/avalanche/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Invisible Books.</a>"A middle-class, white Canadian echo of The White Lotus, the stories in Avalanche combine humour with an earnest examination and indictment of white entitlement, guilt, shame, and disorientation in the wake of waking up to the reality of racism. Focusing on the perspective of white, cis, straight, mostly middle-aged and middle-class characters who lack self-awareness, Westhead shines a light on the obliviousness of white privilege, the violence of polite, quiet racism hiding just under the surface of mundane, everyday situations, and the anguished flailing of “well-intentioned white ladies” desperate to confirm their essential goodness at all costs."<a href="https://www.nathanwhitlock.ca/" title="https://www.nathanwhitlock.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Nathan Whitlock</a> shares a reading from his latest novel, LUMP from <a href="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459751286-lump" title="https://www.dundurn.com/books_/t22117/a9781459751286-lump" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dundurn Press.</a>"Cat's career has stalled, her marriage has gone flat, and being a stay-at-home mom for two young kids has become a grind. When she finds out, all within a few days, that she is pregnant, that a lump in her breast is the worst thing it could be, and that her husband has done something unforgivably repulsive, she responds by running away from her marriage and her life — a life that, on the outside, looks like middle-class success. Her actions send waves of chaos through the lives of multiple characters, including a struggling house cleaner, a rich and charismatic yoga guru, and even an ailing dog. What follows is a dark comedy about marriage, motherhood, privilege, and power."Hope to see you there!!

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