Sunday September 22, 2013 11am - 5pm.
Halifax Waterfront, around the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic
Lesley Crewe
Event Info: 'Remarkable Reads with Halifax Magazine' Stage at 2:30 - 3:00
Lesley Crewe is the bestselling author of Her Mother's Daughter, Hit and Mrs., Ava Comes Home, Shoot Me, and Relative Happiness, which was shortlisted for the Margaret and John Savage First Book Award. She previously was a freelance writer and columnist for Cape Bretoner magazine. Born in Montreal, Lesley lives in Homeville, Nova Scotia.
Books
Kin
Traditions, created and subverted. Love, nurtured and destroyed. Friendships, marriages, and the wild beauty of Cape Breton Island. And above all, kin, in all its convoluted forms. In Lesley Crewe's sixth novel, we trace the tangled lines of loyalty, tragedy, joy, and love through three generations of families. Beginning in Glace Bay in the 1930s and ending in Round Island in 2011, Crewe weaves her most complex and engaging novel yet. The cast of characters is vast and varied--some with the island's deliciously cutting wit, some dour and uptight, some frail, some resilient, and all inextricably bound together by their shared histories. Brimming with humour, poignancy, and the maddening joy that is family, Kin is bound to be every Crewe fan's favourite book.
