Legacy, Lore & Love: David A. Robertson & Jasmine Sealy

David A. Robertson, Jasmine Sealy and Fathima Cader

Legacy, Lore & Love: David A. Robertson & Jasmine Sealy

David A. Robertson, Jasmine Sealy and Fathima Cader

5:30pm

Sunday, September 25, 2022

Join Canadian authors David A. Robertson and Jasmine Sealy as they explore family bonds, secret legacies and the sacrifices we make to heal old wounds. Multi-awardwinning children’s author, Robertson will present his first novel for adults, The Theory of Crows, a poignant and evocative story about a father and daughter finding their way back to one another through a fog of grief, and the many profound gifts offered by the land. Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, Sealy’s The Island of Forgetting is an intimate saga spanning four generations of one family running a beachfront hotel exploring the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.

Moderated by Fathima Cader.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 25 at 5:30pm ET
Where: Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Join Canadian authors David A. Robertson and Jasmine Sealy as they explore family bonds, secret legacies and the sacrifices we make to heal old wounds. Multi-awardwinning children’s author, Robertson will present his first novel for adults, The Theory of Crows, a poignant and evocative story about a father and daughter finding their way back to one another through a fog of grief, and the many profound gifts offered by the land. Loosely inspired by Greek mythology, Sealy’s The Island of Forgetting is an intimate saga spanning four generations of one family running a beachfront hotel exploring the ways a family’s past can haunt its future.

Moderated by Fathima Cader.

Ticket Info:
Date & Time: September 25 at 5:30pm ET
Where: Lakeside Terrace at Harbourfront Centre
Duration: 60 minutes
Ticket prices: $17 – Regular; $12 – Youth; or Get a TIFA Pass
*This event will be followed by a book signing

Conversation

Featured Authors

David A. Robertson is the recipient of the Writers' Union of Canada Freedom to Read Award. His memoir, Black Water, won the Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award and the Alexander Kennedy Isbister Award for Non-Fiction. His middle-grade fantasy series, The Misewa Saga, includes the #1 bestseller The Barren Grounds. He won the Governor General's Literary Award for On the Trapline and When We Were Alone. Robertson is also the writer and host of the award-winning podcast Kiwew. The Theory of Crows is his first novel for adults. David is a member of Norway House Cree Nation. He lives in Winnipeg.

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Jasmine Sealy is a Barbadian-Canadian writer based in Vancouver, BC. Her work has been published in The New Quarterly, Adda Stories, Cosmonauts Avenue, GEIST, Room Magazine and Prairie Fire. She is a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing from UBC and is the former Prose Editor at PRISM international. Her short fiction has been shortlisted for several prizes including Prairie Fire's annual fiction contest, the CBC Short Story Prize and the Commonwealth Short Story Prize. In 2020 she won the UBC/HarperCollins Fiction Prize for The Island of Forgetting.

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Fathima Cader's writing has appeared in Guernica, The New Inquiry, Hazlitt and elsewhere. In her previous life as a public interest litigator, she represented workers and unions. She is writing a novel about Sri Lanka and the forever wars. She is currently based in Toronto.

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5:30pm

Sunday, September 25

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