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A dual book launch from two amazing Prairie authors!
#1 bestselling author of The Perfection of the Morning Sharon Butala and award-winning filmmaker Erna Buffie will be touring across Canada, and are making a stop in Toronto at Another Story Bookshop on October 23rd at 7 pm. Admission is free.
Award-winning author Sharon Butala will be reading from her first book since Globe & Mail bestseller “The Girl in Saskatoon” was published in 2008. “Wild Rose” is an epic, historical novel about a West now long gone, that charts Sophie Hippolyte’s journey from underloved child in religion-bound rural Quebec, to headstrong young woman to exhausted homesteader to deserted bride and mother to independent businesswoman finding her way in a hostile, if beautiful landscape.
Sharon Butala has been shortlisted for the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Commonwealth Prize in the Canadian-Caribbean section, and the Governor General’s Award. Sharon has also been the recipient of the Marian Engel Award, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and the Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Born in Nipawin, Saskatchewan, she spent many years in Eastend, SK with her husband Peter Butala. Sharon has lived in Calgary, Alberta since her husband’s passing.
“Let Us Be True”, the first novel from award-winning documentary filmmaker Erna Buffie, tells the story of three women, whose lives have been shaped and damaged by secrets. At the heart of the novel is 74-year-old Pearl Calder, a woman who has thrown her past away and kept it a secret from her daughters. Alternating between the past and the present, and between Pearl’s voice and the voice of her family members, both living and dead, we learn that secrets are like angry ghosts: they don’t just haunt you, they haunt everyone you love.
Erna Buffie has written, directed and produced numerous award-winning documentary films for broadcasters around the world for the past 25 years, and has interviewed some of the world’s most interesting scientists and thinkers including David Suzuki, Gloria Steinem, and Jane Goodall. After spending twenty years in Montreal, and seven in Halifax, Erna now resides in Winnipeg.
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