Ottawa's Festival of Ideas Since 1997
Southminster United Church15 Aylmer Ave.
7:00pm

Akin

One on One with Emma Donoghue
Hosted by CBC's Alan Neal

Akin

One on One with Emma Donoghue
Hosted by CBC's Alan Neal
26
Thursday
Sep
2019
7:00pm
Southminster United Church
15 Aylmer Ave.
Emma Donoghue - Photo by Punch Photographic, 2013
In her first contemporary novel since Room, bestselling author Emma Donoghue returns with Akin , a tale of love, loss and family. A retired New York professor’s life is thrown into chaos when he takes his great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets.

Noah is only days away from his first trip back to Nice since he was a child when a social worker calls looking for a temporary home for Michael, his eleven-year-old great-nephew. Though he has never met the boy, he gets talked into taking him along to France.

This odd couple, suffering from jet lag and culture shock, argue about everything from steak haché to screen time, and the trip is looking like a disaster. But as Michael's ease with tech and sharp eye help Noah unearth troubling details about their family’s past, both of them come to grasp the risks that people in all eras have run for their loved ones, and find they are more akin than they knew.
 
Books available for purchase at every event: Proceeds support our free children’s literacy programs. 

This event presented in collaboration with Irish Film Festival Ottawa.
 
 
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