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The author of County Road Six discusses his new novel with Meaghan Strimas.
Attend a live reading and conversation with author Kevin Hardcastle, who discusses his new book County Road Six.
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.
It has been years since Mara O’Hare has come home to North Simcoe County. But she is forced to return after her father’s death. Arthur O’Hare—the meanest, most vicious man in the townships—laid low, isolated, angry and sullen before he took his life.
Mara is reunited with her two sisters, Beth and Emma. Soon, the three women are fighting to retain ownership of their home, a farm they have inherited from their father. But Arthur O’Hare’s legacy is not just land. He has also left his daughters an unanticipated inheritance of violence and terror, born out of a long-buried family secret.
Kevin Hardcastle is the author of the novel In the Cage and the short story collection Debris, which won the Trillium Book Award and the ReLit Award for Short Fiction. He was a runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and a finalist for the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize. Hardcastle’s short fiction has been widely published in Canada and the United States, in journals such as The Malahat Review, The New Quarterly, The Puritan, EVENT and Shenandoah. His writing has been anthologized in The Journey Prize Stories 24 and 26, Best Canadian Stories 15 and Internazionale. He lives and works in Toronto.
Meaghan Strimas is the author of two collections of poetry and the editor of The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen. She is an English professor at Humber College and a managing editor at The Humber Literary Review.
AGE GROUP: | Older Adults (55+) | Adults (18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Books and Writing |
TAGS: | Literature | Books | Author Visit | Author Events |
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