No One Knows Us There & Familial Hungers Double Book Launch

Christine Wu and Jessica Bebenek grace Perfect Books with a double book launch of their debut poetry collections! Don't miss it! With special guest and host Ellen Chang-Richardson.

Familial Hungers (Brick Books) by Christine Wu is a book of poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food. Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hungers is a lyric feast. Wu relentlessly searches the grocery shelves for the hard-to-digest ingredients of identity and belonging, offering us her nourishing honesty and courage pulled from the marrow.

No One Knows Us There (Book*hug Press) by Jessica Bebenek, presents two distinct and moving portraits of early womanhood. The first is that of the devoted, caregiving granddaughter navigating hospital hallways and the painful realities of palliative care. The second is that of a woman a decade older, compassionately looking back on her younger self. In this second half, Bebenek rewrites poems from the first, honouring unimaginable loss and turning it into genuine healing.

Asian Heritage Month Event at the Library and Archives

Library and Archives Canada presents Jamie Chai Yun Liew, Ellen Chang-Richardson, and Monia Mazigh in celebration of Asian Heritage Month. Join these three incredible authors for an evening of conversation about their fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Is a River Alive? with Ottawa Writers Festival

Ottawa Writers Festival brings celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane to Ottawa, with his brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title.

At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept.

Tickets and details at writersfestival.org

Elegy for Opportunity Launch

Join Natalie Lim as she launches Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak and Wynn) alongside local poets Manahil Bandukwala and Ellen Chang-Richardson. Kai Cheng Thom calls this debut "urgent, arresting, and gorgeously sincere." Don't miss a lovely spring afternoon of poetry!

The Mind Mappers Launch

Join Globe and Mail journalist Eric Andrew-Gee in conversation with Charlote Gray as he launches The Mind-Mappers: Friendship, Betrayal, and the Obesssive Quest to Chart the Brain (Penguin Random House). A compelling dual biography that follows the friendship between two neuroscientists, one famous, and one forgotten. Don't miss this compelling conversation for fans of biography and science writing alike!

Resisting Orders Book Launch

Join local authors Christine Gervais and Shanisse Kleuskens for the launch of Resisting Orders: Catholic Sisters Contest Their Church (McGill-Queen's University Press), as they discuss what it means for religious women to agitate for change from within and beyond the Catholic Church.

Future-Generation Government

Join Ottawa author and public servant Nicholas Chesterley as he brings his insider take and a fresh perspective on why governments so often focus on the short-term rather than the long. Don't miss the timely launch of Future-Generation Government: How to Legislate for the Long Term.

Water Borne Book Launch

Ottawa-based writer Dan Rubinstein launches Water Borne: A 1200-Mile Paddleboarding Pilgrimage (ECW Press) at the Black Pug!

The Fulcrum Book Launch

Michael Decter launches his latest book, The Fulcrum, at Perfect Books. Join us for an in conversation about this sweeping climate thriller.

Book Signing with Tamara Levine

Pop by the store, and bring the kids! Tamara Levine will be here signing copies of The Warmest Blanket in the World (Second Story Press), a tender intergenerational children's book about a child and great-grandmother.