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Madeleine Thien: The Book of Records

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“I wanted to write about a father and daughter in a building made of time.” Madeleine Thien talks about the genealogy of ideas and yearslong process of writing her novel The Book of Records (Norton, 2025) in this Toronto Public Library event with Elamin Abdelmahmoud. For more from Thien, read “Hopeless Hope: A Conversation With Madeleine Thien” by Renée H. Shea.

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Fiction
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Madeleine Thien
The Book of Records
Norton
Elamin Abdelmahmoud
Toronto Public Library
2025

Dionne Brand: Salvage

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“It’s an ongoing interrogation of how we think about narrative. It’s my ongoing interrogation of history.” In this Toronto Public Library event, poet and novelist Dionne Brand speaks about how her new nonfiction book, Salvage: Readings From the Wreck (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), wrestles with the ways novels from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries sustain and reproduce colonialism in a conversation with David Chariandy.

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Creative Nonfiction
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Dionne Brand
Salvage: Readings From the Wreck
David Chariandy
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Toronto Public Library
reading
conversation
2024
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