Mariko Tamaki

Event Info: This Is Not The Shakespeare Stage at 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM and at The Penguin Pavilion at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Mariko Tamaki has garnered much acclaim for both her written and performance-based work. The graphic novel Skim (illustrated by Jillian Tamaki) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and received numerous other accolades including the Doug Wright Award for Best Graphic Novel. Fans are anxiously awaiting her first YA novel, (You) Set Me on Fire, set to release in September.

Books

(You) Set Me On Fire

This Fall, Governor General Award nominee Mariko Tamaki returns with a story about college, about fire and also about love.

Allison Lee is seventeen and off to college in the fall. So far, she's been in love once (total catastrophe) and on fire twice (also pretty bad). Both love and fire have left their scars.

Looking a little more burnt chicken and a little less radiant phoenix, Allison takes up residence in Dylan Hall (a.k.a. Dyke Hall) at St. Joseph's College, where she discovers the true gift of freshman year: the opportunity to reinvent yourself. Miles away from the high school she's happy to leave behind, her all-female dorm is a strange new world, home to new social circles and challenges. Allison still feels like the odd girl out ... until Shar appears. Beautiful and blinding, Shar quickly becomes the sun at the centre of Allison's universe, drawing her in with dangerous allure.

Will Allison get burned again? And, if she does ... what kind of scars will she earn this time?

Penguin Canada - $16.00 - Young Adult Fiction