Port Medway

From 7pm

Old Meeting House, Port Medway

167 Long Cove Rd, Port Medway, NS

http://portmedwayreadersfestival.com

$20.--

Port Medway Readers' Festival 23-Jul-2016:
Joan Clark

Joan Clark’s newest novel begins with an unexpected demise, sudden and violent, yet The Birthday Lunch is a sunny book – set during one July 1981 week in Sussex, N.B, a town that, for just about every New Brunswicker, evokes dairies and ice cream. As the family gathers for the funeral, Clark enjoys her characters’ foibles and, as we get to know them, so do we; her book illuminates both the ordinariness and the devastating uniqueness of death—it packs real punch. Born on the South Shore, now living in Newfoundland, Joan Clark has been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Commonwealth Fiction Award and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction and has received many national awards for her work in Canada.

Source: ©2016 Port Medway Reader's Festival
Photo © Elizabeth Hay