Junction Reads with Hannah Brown

Join us for a chat and discussion of Hannah Brown's debut novel, Look After Her, from Inanna Publications.

"Upon the death of their art-loving parents, thirteen and fourteen year old Jewish sisters are kidnapped by a family friend and taken to a brothel. There they are held captive by their shared shame and by the younger sister’s forced addiction to morphine. Love and psychodrama gives them the courage to finally escape Vienna. Once in England, however, Hedy discovers her younger sister Susannah longs to be independent— and in Italy. But in 1938, despite the safety they each have found among the privileged, they return to Vienna just before Hitler arrives, putting their own lives and those of two children in danger. With the background of anti-Semitism and exploitation, of sex and love and art and dramatic ruses, all during the terrifying rise of fascism in Austria and Italy, Look After Her reveals this truth: no matter how close we are to another human being, even a beloved sister, that’s what we are: close— we all have our own secrets to keep."

Hannah Brown is a prize-winning screenwriter who happily taught film and English at the college and collegiate levels. A return to writing full-time resulted in poems, short stories, blogs, and essays appearing in many North American literary magazines, and a short story “The Happiness” was nominated for the 2016 Journey prize. She lives near the lake in the Beaches neighbourhood of Toronto. Look After Her is Hannah’s debut novel.

This is a PWYC event with all proceeds going to the author.