Oct 26 | Michael Blouin at the Ottawa Writers' Festival

Michael Blouin (Chase and Haven) hosts three celebrated authors at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival whose characters inhabit the fringes of their respective cultures, spotlighting the isolation, fear, and love that define their lives.

Anchee Min's Pearl of China celebrates the friendship of Willow, the only child of a destitute local family and Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, during decades of great tumult, of imprisonment and exile, bloody civil war and Mao's repressive Communist regime. Alexander MacLeod's Giller-shortlisted first collection of short stories, Light Lifting, offers a suite of unflinching elegies for a city and community on the brink. Emma Donoghue's Booker-nominated novel Room, a celebration of the resilient bond between parent and child, introduces us to five-year-old Jack. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma, it's the prison where Old Nick has kept her for seven years, since she was nineteen.

'Outsiders' at the Ottawa International Writers' Festival
With Anchee Min, Emma Donoghue and Alexander MacLeod
Hosted by Michael Blouin
Mayfair Theatre, 1070 Bank Street
Ottawa, ON
Tickets: $15 / $10 Student or Senior
Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students
6:30 p.m.