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SUMMARY:Author Reading with Heather Ramsay
DESCRIPTION:Join us at the Comox library for an evening with BC author Heather Ramsay\, whose debut novel A Room in the Forest follows a young woman navigating work\, family secrets\, and belonging in the ancient forests of Haida Gwaii. \nNineteen-year-old Lily knows she doesn’t belong at a dead-end job in her father’s small-town Alberta furniture store\, not when she’s been offered a job in the ancient forests of Haida Gwaii. But her search for a sense of place becomes more complicated when a band of tree planters she meets on the road question her assumptions about whose land she is moving towards. Once at the logging camp\, the rugged work and her rough co-workers make her even more uncertain about where she fits in. \nWhile measuring trees\, Lily sees a mysterious figure who disappeared into the forest years before. Is he a man or a myth? Everyone has a different opinion. With a logging protest looming\, Lily’s co-worker Chaz—a young half-Haida man whose white father owns the logging camp—ditches his job in the forest. As she meets more locals and learns about the community\, Lily discovers surprising secrets about her estranged mother’s time in the area—and that her connection to this place may not be what she thought. Do the rumours Lily keeps hearing about a mysterious hermit have anything to do with her? As more and more questions rise to the surface\, Lily plunges deeper into the forest to find out. \nThe event will feature a reading\, an audience Q & A\, and a book signing with the author. \n\nHeather Ramsay lives and writes in unceded Ts’elxwéyeqw territory (otherwise known as Chilliwack\, BC) and is heavily influenced by place: the ten years she lived on Haida Gwaii; the seven years she lived in Wet’suwet’en territory; her childhood in Treaty 7 – Tsuutʼina and Blackfoot Territory (otherwise known as Calgary\, Alberta)—it’s all in there somewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and has been published in The Fiddlehead\, The Antigonish Review\, Numero Cinq\, Canadian Geographic and more. She has also co-written two books for the Haida Gwaii Museum: Gina ’Waadluxan Tluu: The Everything Canoe and gyaaGang.ngaay: The Monumental Poles of Skidegate. Ramsay lives in Chilliwack\, BC.
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CATEGORIES:Adults,Seniors
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