Join us later this month in Vancouver to celebrate Hannah Calder’s “nimbly poetic” Hester in Sunlight. Hosted by one of our favourite local bookstores, Cross & Crows Books!
Hannah Calder’s latest novel is less a re-telling or transposition of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s classic than a re-purposing of the materials to tell a different version. Hester in Sunlight casts a different kind of light on Hawthorne’s Hester, which in turn casts reflections and shadows onto our (unnamed) narrator and the complexities of family in a stimulating riff on contemporary motherhood and parenting.
Thursday May 29
7–9pm
Cross & Crows Books
2836 Commercial Drive, Vancouver
“Hester in Sunlight isn’t a sequel in the vein of those novels inspired by the masterpieces of Jane Austen and the Brontës…Nimbly poetic, unapologetically pensive, and deeply idiosyncratic, it’s a Schrödinger’s novel – simultaneously certain and uncertain.”
— Brett Josef Grubisic, Reviewed in Quill & Quire
HANNAH CALDER is a UK-born novelist who lives on unceded Syilx Okanagan territory in Vernon, B.C. She earned her MA in English Literature in 2004 from Simon Fraser University and has published poetry and fiction in West Coast Line, The Capilano Review and dANDelion. Hester in Sunlight is her third novel with New Star.