FEATURING AUTHORS CLAUDIA DEY, EMMA HOOPER AND ZALIKA REID-BENTA
These literary works may delve into very different circumstances, but at the heart of each are women protagonists navigating complexity to build their own futures in bold and sweeping narratives. Claudia Dey’s hypnotic tour de force, Daughter, follows a woman caught in her charismatic, womanizing father’s web, starving to make a life—and art—of her own. Emma Hooper asks questions of human nature, connection, and hope in We Should Not Be Afraid of the Sky, following five girls—who call themselves sisters—abducted by Roman soldiers. Zalika Reid-Benta probes the vital importance of ancestral ties in her exhilarating magical realist novel about a millennial Black woman embarking on a quest through Toronto in River Mumma. Moderated by Jasmine Sealy.