The Bond Between Us with Claire Cameron and Barbara Gowdy

Hosted by CBC's Alan Neal

In Person Fiction

Admission

Free

Friday

Apr , 2017

6:30pm

Eastern

Christ Church Cathedral

414 Sparks St. • Ottawa

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The Bond Between Us with Claire Cameron and Barbara Gowdy

Claire Cameron's book is a necessary, brilliantly feminist and intuitive reading of our earliest history. She memorably paints a full world with her Neanderthals and binds it perfectly to our own.

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We welcome two of Canada’s most acclaimed authors for a taste of their new novels and a conversation about how we are defined by family, history and our bond with the ones we love.

From Claire Cameron, the bestselling author of The Bear, comes the enthralling story of two women separated by millennia, but linked by an epic journey that will transform them both. The Last Neanderthal asks us to reconsider all we think we know about what it means to be human.

The farthest place you can go is closer than you can imagine. Barbara Gowdy’s Little Sister explores the astonishing power of empathy, the question of where we end and others begin, and the fierce bonds of motherhood and sisterhood.

Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs.

The Authors

Barbara Gowdy

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and twice for the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1996, she received the Marian Engel Award and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. A Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow, Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto. Visit her website at www.barbaragowdy.com.

Claire Cameron

Claire Cameron’s most recent novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. It sold in eleven territories. Her second novel, The Bear, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction, sold in ten territories, and was a #1 national bestseller. It won the Northern Lit Award from the Ontario Library Service, which her first novel, The Line Painter, also won. Claire has led canoe trips in Algonquin Park and worked as an instructor for Outward Bound, teaching mountaineering, climbing, and whitewater rafting in Oregon and beyond. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and she is a monthly contributor to The Globe and Mail. She lives in Toronto.