Imagine Our Future: Catherine Hernandez on Crosshairs

Catherine Hernandez and Niyosha Keyzad

Imagine Our Future: Catherine Hernandez on Crosshairs

Catherine Hernandez and Niyosha Keyzad

7:30pm

Wednesday, October 28, 2020

45 mins

Acclaimed author of Scarborough, Catherine Hernandez, is back to answer your curly questions about her latest book Crosshairs. The book gives an unsettlingly timely account of a dystopian near-future when a queer Black performer and his allies join forces against an oppressive regime that is rounding up those deemed “Other” in concentration camps. With her signature prose, Hernandez creates a moving yet startling vision of the future that is all the more terrifying because it is possible. Join her for this special discussion about her cautionary tale.

Interviewer: Niyosha Keyzad

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Acclaimed author of Scarborough, Catherine Hernandez, is back to answer your curly questions about her latest book Crosshairs. The book gives an unsettlingly timely account of a dystopian near-future when a queer Black performer and his allies join forces against an oppressive regime that is rounding up those deemed “Other” in concentration camps. With her signature prose, Hernandez creates a moving yet startling vision of the future that is all the more terrifying because it is possible. Join her for this special discussion about her cautionary tale.

Interviewer: Niyosha Keyzad

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Catherine Hernandez (she/her) is a queer woman of Filipino, Spanish, Chinese and Indian descent who married into the Navajo Nation. Her first novel, Scarborough, was a finalist for Canada Reads 2022, and the film adaptation, for which she wrote the screenplay, won eight Canadian Screen Awards. Her second novel, Crosshairs, was shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award.

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Niyosha Keyzad is a PhD candidate at the Department of English and the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Her research focuses on diasporic Iranian life writing, literatures of exile and displacement, and theories of space and identity. 

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7:30pm

Wednesday, October 28

45 mins

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