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Join authors André Alexis and Susan Choi as they discuss their latest works of fiction, two books that grapple with memory, family, and forces beyond characters’ control. Celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, Alexis’ Fifteen Dogs follows a group of dogs in a shelter, temporarily granted consciousness by the gods, and their divide over their new way of living and the old. Choi’s Flashlight, follows a girl whose parents have been avoiding their pasts for as long as she can remember, and when her father disappears, she and her mother must learn to handle their greif and the past that is trying to catch up with them. This conversation with two award-winning authors is sure to be one audiences shouldn’t miss!

Moderated by Ryan B. Patrick

Generously supported by Harriet Lewis and Eldon Bennett

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André Alexis

André Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. He is the author of A Quincunx, comprised of five novels: Fifteen Dogs, winner of the Giller Prize, CBC Canada Reads and the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Days by Moonlight, winner of the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; Pastoral; The Hidden Keys; and Ring.

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Susan Choi

Susan Choi's latest novel is Flashlight, which is currently long-listed for the Booker Prize. She is also the author of Trust Exercise, which received the National Book Award for fiction, and the novels The Foreign Student, American Woman, A Person of Interest, and My Education.

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