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Join us at the Centre for Social Innovation on Spadina for the launch of Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez‘s debut novel, Celestina’s House (Dundurn Press). The author will be joined for a conversation with Thom Ernst.

The event will begin at 6pm. Books will be for sale from Another Story Bookshop.

Toronto Lit Up is a multi-year initiative, started in 2016 by the Toronto International Festival of Authors and the Toronto Arts Council, to spotlight Toronto writers and empower local artists with career-building opportunities. Between April 2016 and March 2024, Toronto Lit Up has presented over 200 events featuring over 250 Toronto authors and illustrators. Toronto Lit Up book launches take place throughout the year at venues across the city. They are open to the public and free to attend. Click here for more information.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Celestina’s House

The House of the Spirits meets Mexican Gothic in a tale of love and betrayal, belonging and exile, and the supernatural forces that pervade life in the Philippines. The secrets of the house are the secrets of the heart. It begins with an act of betrayal that destroys the tenuous bonds of ... Read more

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Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez

Clarissa Trinidad Gonzalez was born in the Philippines, rather aptly on Hallowe'en, and grew up in a world animated by spirits and even the occasional miracle. Celestina's House is her debut novel. She works as a communications professional, and cocoons in her west end Toronto home with her spouse and daughter in between bouts of wanderlust.

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