The Search for the Transcendent: Christy Ann Conlin & Jordan Tannahill 

Christy Ann Conlin, Jordan Tannahill and Steven W. Beattie

The Search for the Transcendent: Christy Ann Conlin & Jordan Tannahill 

Christy Ann Conlin, Jordan Tannahill and Steven W. Beattie

4:00pm

Tuesday, October 26, 2021

Bestselling author Christy Ann Conlin and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning playwright and author Jordan Tannahill take their places on the TIFA virtual stage to present their latest novels. In Conlin’s feminist tour de force The Speed of Mercy, dark family secrets and a tender, protective friendship between women converge to create an unusual story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. Tannahill’s The Listeners (shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize) is an exhilarating and erotic novel exploring the seduction of the wild and unknowable, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West, and the desire for community in our increasingly polarized times.

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Bestselling author Christy Ann Conlin and two-time Governor General’s Award-winning playwright and author Jordan Tannahill take their places on the TIFA virtual stage to present their latest novels. In Conlin’s feminist tour de force The Speed of Mercy, dark family secrets and a tender, protective friendship between women converge to create an unusual story set in idyllic rural Nova Scotia. Tannahill’s The Listeners (shortlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize) is an exhilarating and erotic novel exploring the seduction of the wild and unknowable, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West, and the desire for community in our increasingly polarized times.

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Featured Authors

Christy Ann Conlin
Christy Ann Conlin is the author of two acclaimed novels, Heave and The Memento. She is also the author of the short fiction collection, Watermark, a finalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the Evergreen Award. Heave was a national bestseller, a finalist for the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, the Dartmouth Book Award and was a Globe & Mail Top 100 Book. Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals including Best Canadian Stories, Brick, Geist, Room, and Numéro Cinq. She was born and raised in seaside Nova Scotia where she still resides.

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Jordan Tannahill
Jordan Tannahill is a playwright, novelist and filmmaker. His work has been widely presented, and translated into a dozen languages.

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Steven W. Beattie
Steven W. Beattie spent 12 and a half years as Review Editor at Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of the publishing industry. His writing and criticism have appeared in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto Star, The Walrus, Canadian Notes & Queries and elsewhere. He maintains the literary website That Shakespearean Rag.

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4:00pm

Tuesday, October 26

What to read

The Speed of Mercy by , The Listeners by ,