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Step into two fraught periods of history, and join authors Nathan Harris and Patrick Tarr for a gripping conversation about survival, memory, and the haunting legacies of war. Harris’s Amity plunges readers into the perilous aftermath of the Civil War, following emancipated siblings Coleman and June as they attempt to reunite across the deserts of Mexico while evading men determined to return them to bondage. Tarr’s atmospheric debut novel, The Guest Children, takes readers from the evacuation of London during the Blitz to the wilds of northern Ontario, where investigator Randall Sturgess must untangle the eerie disappearance of two siblings and confront his own buried traumas. Suspenseful, intimate, and deeply human, these novels reveal how the search for freedom, justice, and truth can be as harrowing as it is redemptive.

Moderated by Tanya Turton

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Nathan Harris

Nathan Harris is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Sweetness of Water, which was an Oprah’s Book Club pick, the winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, and longlisted for the Booker Prize, the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize.

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Patrick Tarr

Patrick Tarr is an award-winning film and television writer whose work has been seen around the globe. Originally from Vancouver, he lives in Toronto with his family.

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