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SUMMARY:An Evening with Cedar Bowers and Grant Hayter-Menzies
URL:http://www.harbourliving.ca/event/an-evening-with-cedar-bowers-and-grant-hayter-menzies200/
LOCATION:SHOAL Activity Centre :: 10030 Resthaven Drive Sidney, V8L 3G4
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:<p>Cedar Bowers and Grant Hayter-Menzies will join us to read from and discuss their latest books.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>Cedar Bowers&rsquo; debut novel, Astra ,was nominated for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The novel traces the life from childhood through middle age of Astra, a woman who grows up on an agricultural commune in British Columbia, through the third-person perspectives of various other figures in her life. Bowers has also published short stories in Joyland, Taddle Creek, and The Malahat Review.</p>=0D=0A=
<p>Historian and biographer Grant Hayter-Menzies has written 13 books and specializes in extraordinary lives. These include Mrs. Ziegfeld: The Public and Private Lives of Billie Burke; Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film; The Empress and Mrs.Conger, Imperial Masquerade: the Legend of Princess Der Ling, and Lillian Carter: A Compassionate Life. Animals feature in Woo: The Monkey Who Inspired Emily Carr, and From Stray Dog to World War I Hero. His new book, Muggins:The Life and Afterlife of a Canadian Canine War Hero was published in 2021.</p>
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