K.R. Byggdin in Conversation with Luke Hathaway

The Writers’ Federation of Nova Scotia and Dalhousie Libraries present an evening of conversation between Luke Hathaway and K.R. Byggdin, 2023 winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award for their book Wonder World, a novel that explores the possibilities of queer belonging in small town Canada.

Join us at Glitter Bean Cafe (5896 Spring Garden Road) for the conversation’s new rescheduled date of Monday, August 14 at 7pm. This event is free to attend and no RSVP is required. On-site book sales provided by Bookmark Halifax. Face masks will be available at the door and audience members are requested to wear a mask when not eating or drinking.

ABOUT THE BOOK

“What this town has done, it’s like pickling people. Taking us when we’re young and fresh and vulnerable, sticking us in a jar and filling us with all these rules they hope will preserve us from the rotting decay of worldliness. But you can’t brine someone in that much guilt and shame their whole lives and expect them not to change. Shrivel into mere husks of their former selves, sour as vinegar.”

Twenty-seven-year-old Isaac Funk is broke, drifting, and questioning his lonely existence on the East Coast. Having left his conservative hometown of Newfield, Manitoba full of piss and vinegar, Isaac’s dreams of studying music and embracing queer culture in Halifax have gradually fizzled out. When his grandfather dies and leaves him a substantial inheritance, Isaac is pulled back to the Prairies for the first time in ten years. Finding his father Abe just as enigmatic as always and his extended family more fragmented than ever, Isaac begins to wonder if there will ever be a place for him in Newfield. Is the prodigal son home for good, or is it time to cut and run once more?

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