Composite Sketches

Kyo Maclear and Omer Aziz

Composite Sketches

Kyo Maclear and Omer Aziz

3:00pm

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Lakeside Terrace

60 mins

Eye-opening and honest, Omer Aziz and Kyo Maclear lay bare some of the most intimate, vulnerable moments of their lives in two powerful new memoirs. In conversation, Aziz and Maclear discuss what compelled them to share their stories and what family and identity mean to them.

Brown Boy charts Aziz’s struggle to find a place to belong as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy learning and living in an elite white world of academia and privilege. Meanwhile, Unearthing details Maclear’s discovery that the father who raised her is not her biological father, a revelation that leads her on a journey towards a deeper understanding of family.

Moderated by Stephen Dorsey.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

How to attend

$39.99

Single Day Pass

$69.99

Weekend Pass

$249.99

Full Festival Pass

Students and youth save up to 50% on passes.

Eye-opening and honest, Omer Aziz and Kyo Maclear lay bare some of the most intimate, vulnerable moments of their lives in two powerful new memoirs. In conversation, Aziz and Maclear discuss what compelled them to share their stories and what family and identity mean to them.

Brown Boy charts Aziz’s struggle to find a place to belong as a first-generation Pakistani Muslim boy learning and living in an elite white world of academia and privilege. Meanwhile, Unearthing details Maclear’s discovery that the father who raised her is not her biological father, a revelation that leads her on a journey towards a deeper understanding of family.

Moderated by Stephen Dorsey.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Kyo Maclear
Kyo Maclear is an essayist, novelist, editor and children's author. Her books have been translated into 18 languages, published in over 25 countries. Her non-fiction books include the hybrid memoir Birds Art Life (2017), winner of the Trillium Book Award, and Unearthing (Knopf and Scribner, 2023). She teaches in the Creative Writing MFA program at the University of Guelph. kyomaclear.com kyomaclearkids.com

Read more about Kyo Maclear

Omer Aziz
Omer Aziz is a lawyer, writer, and former foreign policy advisor in the administration of the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. He was born to working-class Pakistani parents in Toronto, Canada, and with the help of scholarships, became the first in his family to go to college in the West, studying in Paris, at Cambridge University and Yale. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, New York magazine, The Washington Post, The New Republic and many other publications. He was most recently a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. Brown Boy is his first book. 

Read more about Omer Aziz

3:00pm

Saturday, September 30

Lakeside Terrace

60 mins

How to attend

$39.99

Single Day Pass

$69.99

Weekend Pass

$249.99

Full Festival Pass

Students and youth save up to 50% on passes.

What to read

Brown Boy: A Memoir by , Unearthing: A Story of Tangled Love and Family Secrets by ,
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