Saturday, October 24 - Event

Robert Arthur Alexie
Cathleen With
Host: Joseph Boyden
2 – 3:30 pm
PTC Studio
$16
This event is sold out.

In the 1990s, Robert Arthur Alexie was Chief of the Teetl’it Gwich’in in the Northwest Territories. Cathleen With served as a teacher in Inuvik. Those memories and, in the case of Alexie, personal heritage serve as catalysts for two compelling novels that paint dark and realistic portraits of damaged people in Canada’s North. With admits “that this was sometimes difficult to write…and there are people trying their damndest to change the cycle of abuse and addiction.” Tough, realistic but with a glimmer of redemption, these are novels—and novelists—to whom we should pay attention. Celebrated Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden brings his understanding and passion for the native experience in Canada to this discussion.

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