Book Launch of What Can�t Be Undone: Stories

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Sunday, June 21st, 2015
7:00 PM to 8:00 PM

Award-winning writer, poet, chef and local foods advocate [and former Valley resident] dee Hobsbawn-Smith launches her short story collection, What Can’t Be Undone, on Sunday, 21 June, at 7 PM.

Reading, book signing, Q&A with the author.
Free and open to the public.

“With these carefully crafted stories, dee Hobsbawn-Smith reminds us of why we tell stories at all: to entertain, to reflect, and to render our lives and relationships in a way that is simultaneously simpler and more complex.”
– Johanna Skibsrud, winner of the ScotiaBank Giller Prize for The Sentimentalists

“dee Hobsbawn-Smith’s stories begin when love and comfort have faded . . . Hobsbawn-Smith’s characters are not life’s victims but life’s bludgeoned survivors. Like their earthy forebears, these modern descendants learn to live with regret, and they keep on keeping on. This kind of gutting it out is the very definition of Western grit, and these fine stories are parables of resiliency.”
– David Carpenter, author of Welcome to Canada

What Can’t Be Undone, the first collection of short fiction from poet and celebrated food writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith, brings together stories of redemption and survival as her characters face life’s challenges head on. A chef loses her sense of taste and smell; a former rodeo cowboy is forced to reassess his notions of manhood; a grieving playwright observes the sad domestic drama unfolding outside his patio door; and in two different stories, horse-crazy teenage girls catapult unexpectedly into a painful maturity. Hobsbawn-Smith travels with her characters across the rolling prairies, unforgiving mountain ranges, and coastal highways of Western Canada, shining a light on the complexities of life.

https://www.comoxvalleyarts.com