Author Claire Cameron discusses her book with Hamilton Review of Books founder Dana Hansen.
Attend a live reading and conversation with author Claire Cameron, who discusses their new book How to Survive a Bear Attack.
The 45-minute conversation is followed by a 15-minute question and answer period. Check out the HPL catalogue to borrow the book before the event.
How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir is at once an intimate portrait of an extraordinary animal, a bracing chronicle of pain, obsession and love and a profoundly moving exploration of how we can understand and survive the wildness that lives inside us.
Claire's most recent novel, The Last Neanderthal, was a national bestseller and a finalist for the 2017 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her second novel, The Bear, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction and was a #1 national bestseller. Her writing has appeared in New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Guardian, and she is a contributor to The Globe and Mail. Her new book, How to Survive a Bear Attack: A Memoir will be published in late March 2025. She lives in Toronto.
Dana Hansen (she/her) is a professor of English literature, language and communications at Humber Polytechnic in Toronto. She is also a writer and book reviewer with work in a number of publications, a librarian-in-training, and the founding publisher and editor-in-chief of Hamilton Review of Books. She lives in Waterdown with her family.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults | Adults (18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Literary |
TAGS: | Reading | Literature | In Branch | Books | Author Visit | Author Events |
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