Live Book Launch: Mud Lilies by Indra Ramayan
Date and time
Join us in celebrating the launch of author Indra Ramayan's debut novel, Mud Lilies!
About this event
Author Indra Ramayan will be discussing her debut novel, Mud Lilies, in conversation with Thomas Trofimuk on June 4th at 2pm MT.
The event will take place at Audreys Books: 10702 Jasper Ave, Edmonton, AB T5J 3J5. Join us for a great conversation, Q&A, and mingling!
To purchase Mud Lilies, please visit Audreys Books' website.
About the book
The night fourteen-year-old Chanie Nyrider ran away from her abusive parents, she was saved by an older woman who, after building a friendship with the teen, offers her a new life working as a prostitute. With nowhere to turn, Chanie is drawn into Edmonton’s dark underbelly, where she survives until arrested four years later. At this time she is given two options: jail or a high school equivalency program for troubled youth.
Reluctantly, Chanie agrees to attend the program — but only so she can maintain her freedom and get to know her new love interest, Blue. As she begins to make strides in the program and meets friends who share similar circumstances, her home life, such as it is, deteriorates. Blue becomes unstable, deceitful, and eventually violent. He puts himself between her and her new friends, between her and the promise of a new and better life.
About the author
Indra Ramayan believes in the magic of love poems and the power of daydreams. Inspired by her wild past and writers such as Heather O’Neill and Angie Abdou, Indra wrote her first novel, Mud Lilies, while studying creative writing at Athabasca University. Ramayan is a graduate of the Humber School for Writers and is on the board of directors of YouthWrite Society Canada. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta with a Boston Terrier named Bodhi.
About the interviewer
Thomas Trofimuk is an Edmonton writer who has four novels out in the world (The 52nd Poem, Doubting Yourself to the Bone, Waiting for Columbus, and This is All a Lie) with a fifth, The Elephant on Karlův Bridge, to be released this summer. He’s a long-time teacher at Youthwrite (a fantastic writing camp for kids) and writes on an irregular basis for his own website; “writer, gardener, failed Buddhist” at www.thomastrofimuk.com.
