We’re so thrilled that Barbara Joan Scott will be at this year’s Eden Mills Writers’ Festival. She’s participating on a panel titled “The Way Forward,” moderated by Ann Y.K. Choi, reading and conversing alongside Edward Y.C. Lee and Leslie Shimotakahara.
Find their programming here.
Description from the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival Website
Presenters: Edward Y.C. Lee (The Laundryman’s Boy), Barbara Joan Scott (The Taste of Hunger), Leslie Shimotakahara (Sisters of the Spruce)
Session Format: Readings, interviews, and discussion
Host: Ann Y.K. Choi, author and educator
Thirteen-year-old Hoi Wing Woo is forced to give up his dreams of an education when he is sent to work in a Chinese laundry in Canada (The Laundryman’s Boy).
In Saskatchewan in the late 1920s, a fifteen-year-old Ukrainian immigrant is forced into marriage with a man twice her age (The Taste of Hunger).
World War One is in high gear when fourteen-year-old Khya Terada moves with her family to a remote, misty inlet on Haida Gwaii, in northern British Columbia (Sisters of the Spruce).
Discover how the young characters in these powerful Canadian historical fiction titles are all struggling against their circumstances to find their place in the world.