Another Story Bookshop, Toronto Lit UP and Tam Fam Lit Jam present the Toronto launch of Black Cake, Turtle Soup, and Other Dilemmas by Gloria Blizzard.
Featuring a reading by Gloria Blizzard and conversation with Donna Bailey Nurse
music by Jesse Ryan and Eric Liang
Live music and hors d’oeuvres at 6:30pm
Reading and conversation at 7:30
Sponsored by Dundurn Press, Toronto International Festival of Authors, Ose Fine Foods and the Writers Union of Canada
About the book
A diasporic collection of essays on music, memory, and motion.
In this powerful and deeply personal collection, Gloria Blizzard uses traditional narrative essays, hybrid structures, and the tools of poetry to negotiate the complexities of culture, geography, and language in an international diasporic quest.
These essays of wayfinding accompany anyone exploring issues of belonging - to a family, a neighbourhood, a group, or a country. Here, the small is profound, the intimate universal; the questions are all relevant and the answers of our times require simultaneous multiple perspectives.
About the author
Gloria Blizzard is an award-winning writer and poet, and a Black Canadian woman of multiple heritages. Her work explores spaces where music, dance, spirit, and culture collide. She lives in Toronto.
About the guests
Donna Bailey Nurse is a Canadian literary critic. She is the author of two volumes of collected writing, What’s a Black Critic To Do? and the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing.
Jesse Ryan is a JUNO-nominated saxophonist and composer with a keen interest in the connections between jazz and Afro-Caribbean musical traditions. He will be accompanied by pianist Eric Liang
