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A Discussion With Carrie Snyder - Francie's Got a Gun

Book Launch in Partnership with Words Worth Books
2022-07-26 19:00:00 2022-07-26 20:00:00 America/New_York A Discussion With Carrie Snyder - Francie's Got a Gun IN PERSON Eastside Branch - Program Room

Tuesday, July 26
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2022-07-26 19:00:00 2022-07-26 20:00:00 America/New_York A Discussion With Carrie Snyder - Francie's Got a Gun IN PERSON Eastside Branch - Program Room

Eastside Branch

Program Room

IN PERSON

Join us for a evening with Carrie Snyder, fiction writer and editor as she discusses her new book Francie's Got a Gun. Fellow authors Tasneem Jamal and Emily Urquhart will be interviewing Carrie Snyder for the evening.

About Carrie Snyder:

Carrie Snyder is an award-winning Canadian writer who has published three books of literary fiction and two books for children. Her most recent, bestselling novel, Girl Runner, was a finalist for the Writers’ Trust Prize and published in twelve countries. Her novel-in-stories, The Juliet Stories, was a finalist for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. She is a consulting editor for The New Quarterly magazine and publishes an award-winning literary blog, Obscure…

About the Book:

Francie's Got a Gun
In Francie’s Got a Gun, award-winning writer Carrie Snyder assembles a chorus of unforgettable characters who are both well-intentioned and flawed. At their centre is Francie, a vulnerable, imaginative girl with surprising attachments to each of them. Here is a propulsive, polyphonic, heart-expanding novel—equal parts sorrow and humour, fear and love, anger and kindness—about social breakdown and the quest for connection in a close-knit community.

About the Interviewers:

Tasneem Jamal was born in Mbarara, Uganda, and immigrated to Canada with her family in 1975. The author of the novel Where the Air Is Sweet (HarperCollins 2014), she serves as a nonfiction editor at The New Quarterly and is at work on her second novel (working title: “The Uncertainty Principle”). When not writing, Tasneem serves as Communications Officer at Project Ploughshares, a Waterloo-based peace research institute. She lives in Kitchener.

Emily Urquhart is a journalist with a doctorate in folklore from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her award-winning longform nonfiction has appeared in Guernica, Longreads and The Walrus among other publications. Her memoir The Age of Creativity: Art, Memory, my Father and Me, was listed as a top book of 2020 by CBC, NOW Magazine and Quill & Quire. She is a nonfiction editor for The New Quarterly and lives in Kitchener, Ontario. Her essay collection, Ordinary Wonder Tales, will be published in fall 2022.

Programmer:  Nancy

Carrie Snyder

AGE GROUP: | Adults 19+ |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs, Writing and Authors |

TAGS: | Special Event | Author Event |

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ESQ Winter STEM Library Club - Ages 7 to 9
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Family Storytime
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Families Under the Rainbow - presented in partnership with SPECTRUM
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A Discussion with Author Treena Orchard - in Partnership with Words Worth Books
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Eastside Branch - Program Room
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