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An Evening with Author Tanis MacDonald
Thursday, October 13
7:00pm - 8:00pm
Join local author Tanis MacDonald as she reads from and discusses her new book Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female.
Tanis MacDonald reads from and discusses her new book Straggle: Adventures in Walking While Female.
To purchase your own copy of Straggle, please visit our bookselling partner for this event - Green Heron Books in Paris, Ontario. You can visit their website at greenheronbooks.com , call 519-442-1822 or email roy@greenheronbooks.ca. Mention that you are registered for this event and receive 20% off your purchase of Straggle!
More About the Book
In this wide-ranging collection of essays, Tanis MacDonald walks the reader down many paths, pointing out the sights, exclaiming over birds, sharing stories and asking questions about just who gets to walk freely through our cities, parks and wilderness. Deer move mysteriously through these essays, knowing just when they vanish from sight, as do predators, both human and animal.
She walks to begin to understand the place she now calls home in Southern Ontario, catalogues the fauna around her in FaunaWatch and continues walking through illness. From a child spotting a snowy owl on her way to school in Winnipeg, to a young woman watching her own distinctive walk be imitated in an acting class, to a worried daughter helping her mother relearn how to walk after a bad fall on a busy road, MacDonald shares how walking has shaped her life and the lives of many others. Wry, smart, political and lyrical, these essays share the joy of walking as well its danger and uncovers the promise it offers – of healing, of companionship and of understanding.
About the Author
Tanis MacDonald is an essayist, poet, professor and free-range literary animal. She is the host of the podcast Watershed Writers, and the author of Out of Line: Daring to Be an Artist Outside the Big City. Her essay Mondegreen Girls won The Malahat Review’s Open Seasons Award for Creative Nonfiction in 2021. She identifies as a bad birder, and lives near Ose’kowáhne in southwestern Ontario as a grateful guest on traditional Haudenosaunee territory.
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