Casual Brutalities

Christine Estima and Camille Hernández-Ramdwar

1:00pm

Saturday, September 23, 2023

60 mins

Christine Estima and Camille Hernández-Ramdwar take the stage to discuss their new story collections, both tackling themes of legacy, family and the small tragedies and devastations that permeate our everyday lives.

In Hernández-Ramdwar’s Suite as Sugar, a myriad of perspectives, settings and unexpected narrators come together in an exploration of everything from colonialism to loss to the housing crisis. Meanwhile, Estima’s The Syrian Ladies Benevolent Society delves into the immigrant experience, blood-ethnicity and sexuality in a tapestry of voices from one woman’s family throughout the centuries.

Skilfully shifting perspectives, protagonists and time periods, two authors offer insight into their explosive debut collections and the stories that inspired them.

Moderated by Samia Badih.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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$39.99

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Skilfully shifting perspectives, protagonists and time periods, two authors offer insight into their explosive debut collections and the stories that inspired them.

Moderated by Samia Badih.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Christine Estima

Christine Estima is an Arab woman of mixed ethnicity (Lebanese, Syrian and Portuguese) whose essays and short stories have appeared in the New York Times, the Walrus, VICE, the Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Maisonneuve and many more. She was shortlisted for the 2018 Allan Slaight Prize for Journalism, longlisted for the 2015 CBC Canada Writes Creative Nonfiction prize, and a finalist for the 2011 Writers’ Union of Canada short prose competition. Born in Trois-Rivières and raised in Montreal, she lives in Toronto.