The Meaning of One Life: Aislinn Hunter & Sarah Leipciger

Aislinn Hunter and Sarah Leipciger

The Meaning of One Life: Aislinn Hunter & Sarah Leipciger

Aislinn Hunter and Sarah Leipciger

2:30pm

Sunday, November 1, 2020

45 mins

The meaning of mortality and the impact of each human life are common themes in the newest books by authors Aislinn Hunter and Sarah Leipciger. Hunter questions the entwined fates of two very different refugees in a 1940 Spanish village, while the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, in The Certainties. Leipciger accounts three lives that intertwine across oceans and time, beginning on the banks of the River Seine in 1899, when a young woman plunges into the icy water, in Coming Up for Air. Join the writers in intimate conversation about these stories and the inspirations for these vividly moving tales.

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The meaning of mortality and the impact of each human life are common themes in the newest books by authors Aislinn Hunter and Sarah Leipciger. Hunter questions the entwined fates of two very different refugees in a 1940 Spanish village, while the shadow of war lengthens over Europe, in The Certainties. Leipciger accounts three lives that intertwine across oceans and time, beginning on the banks of the River Seine in 1899, when a young woman plunges into the icy water, in Coming Up for Air. Join the writers in intimate conversation about these stories and the inspirations for these vividly moving tales.

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Featured Authors

Aislinn Hunter
Aislinn Hunter is an award-winning novelist and poet and the author of seven highly acclaimed books including the novel The World Before Us, which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice book, a Guardian, Globe and Mail and NPR Book of the Year, and winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. Her work has been adapted into music, dance, art, and film forms—including a feature film, based on her novel Stay. In 2018, she served as a Canadian War Artist working with Canadian and NATO forces at CFB Suffield. She teaches creative writing part-time and lives in Vancouver.

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Sarah Leipciger
Sarah Leipciger is the author of acclaimed novel The Mountain Can Wait. She won THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt and her stories have been shortlisted for the Asham Award, the Bridport Prize, the Fish Prize and the PRISM International Short Fiction Contest. She holds a B.F.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Victoria and an M.A. in Creative and Life Writing from Goldsmiths University. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Creative Writing, also at Goldsmiths. Born in Canada, she now lives in London, UK, with her three children, where she teaches creative writing in prisons.

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2:30pm

Sunday, November 1

45 mins

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