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A Discussion with Author Mariam Pirbhai

in partnership with Words Worth Books

2024-01-16 19:00:00 2024-01-16 20:00:00 America/New_York A Discussion with Author Mariam Pirbhai Adults Eastside Branch - Program Room

Tuesday, January 16
7:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-01-16 19:00:00 2024-01-16 20:00:00 America/New_York A Discussion with Author Mariam Pirbhai Adults Eastside Branch - Program Room

Eastside Branch

Program Room

Adults

Join us for an evening with Mariam Pirbhai, writer and academic as she discusses her new book Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, a combo of nature writing and memoir, exploring her relationship, as an immigrant who has lived in other parts of the world, to what it means to belong and settle a new land—specifically here in the Grand River region, in Waterloo. The book is filtered through the lens of gardens and gardening.

Presented in partnership with Words Worth Books.

About Mariam Pirbhai:

Mariam Pirbhai is the author of a debut novel titled Isolated Incident (Mawenzi 2022) featured among CBC’s “65 Works of Fiction to Watch For in Fall 2022); and a short story collection titled Outside People and Other Stories (Inanna 2017), winner of the IPPY and American BookFest Awards. Pirbhai is Professor of English at Wilfrid Laurier University, where she teaches and specializes in postcolonial studies and creative writing. She is also the author or editor of several academic books on the global South Asian diaspora, including Mythologies of Migration, Vocabularies of Indenture: Novels of the South Asian Diaspora in Africa, the Caribbean, and Asia-Pacific (University of Toronto Press 2009), and Critical Perspectives on Indo-Caribbean Women’s Literature (Routledge 2013). Pirbhai has served as President of CAPS (Canadian Association of Postcolonial Studies, formerly CACLALS), Canada’s longest-running scholarly association devoted to postcolonial and global anglophone literatures. Pirbhai is the daughter of Pakistani immigrants whose arrival in Canada followed a circuitous route from England, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines. She and her husband live in Waterloo, Ontario.

About Garden Inventories - Reflections of Land Place and Belonging:

In Garden Inventories: Reflections on Land, Place and Belonging, scholar Mariam Pirbhai looks carefully at the square of land she has called home in Southern Ontario for the past seventeen years, which she notes is a milestone for her, and asks how long it takes to be rooted to a place? And what does that truly mean? Seeing the landscape around her with the layered experience of a childhood spent wandering the world, Pirbhai shares her efforts to create a garden and understand her new home. From the strange North American obsession with non-fruiting fruit trees to the naming conventions of plants that erase their heritage, she casts a sharp eye on the choices that have shaped our gardens, and our society. Pirbhai considers wildflowers and weeds, our obsession with lawns, the choices in our plant nurseries and even our Canadian dedication to the cottage with warmth and humour. The result is a delightful collection of essays that invites the reader to see the beautiful complexity of the land around us all in a new way.

Programmer: Nancy

Mariam Pirbhai

AGE GROUP: | Adults 19+ |

EVENT TYPE: | Book Clubs, Writing and Authors |

TAGS: | Author Event |

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