March 26 at 7 p.m. | Oland Hall, room 104 | Free admission
Join the Lorenzo Society in celebrating the release of Felt by Mark Blagrave. Mark will read from Felt and chat with Julia Wright about the novel.
In Felt, a family’s history is woven, unravelled, and rewoven into a tapestry spanning three generations. The novel follows museum curator Matthew Reade as he navigates career pressures, marriage struggles and his mother’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis. After Matt returns to the Maritimes to help Penelope move into long-term care, the pair discuss their family’s murky past. As his mother’s memory declines, he’s left to wonder what is real and what has been rewritten by the disease?
Mark Blagrave is a fiction writer from Saint Andrews, Brunswick. His first novel, Silver Salts, was shortlisted for the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Novel and the 2009 Margaret and John Savage First Book Award (Atlantic Book Awards).
His second novel, Lay Figures, was published in 2020 and longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award. Blagrave’s short stories have been published regularly in leading Canadian literary journals, including The New Quarterly and The Fiddlehead, and his plays have been produced professionally and in university theatres.
Books will be available for purchase (and signing) and light refreshment will be provided.
Admission is free and all are welcome.
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