About this event
About the book launch
The launch for Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's new novel, Wait Softly Brother will be at Adega Wine Bar in collaboration with Kasu Productions. The event is free to the public but you must register a spot since space is limited. Books will be sold at the event by local county bookstore, Books & Company.
Special guest: Governor General Award winning author, Sarah Henstra
About Wait Softly Brother
From lost siblings to the horrors of war to tales of selkie wives, Wait Softly Brother is filled with questions about memory, reality and the truths hidden in family lore.
After twenty years of looping frustrations Kathryn walks out of her marriage and washes up in her childhood home determined to write her way to a new life. There she is put to work by her aging parents sorting generations of memories and mementos as biblical rains fall steadily and the house is slowly cut off from the rest of the world. Lured away from the story she is determined to write – that of her stillborn brother, Wulf – by her mother’s gift of crumbling letters, Kathryn instead begins to piece together the strange tale of an earlier ancestor, Russell Boyt, who fought as a substitute solider in the American Civil War. As the water rises, and more truths come to the surface, the two stories begin to mingle in unexpected and beautiful ways. In this elegantly written novel, Kuitenbrouwer deftly unravels the stories we are told to believe by society and shows the reader how to weave new tales of hope and possibility.
About Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer
Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer is the bestselling author of the novels Wait Softly Brother, All the Broken Things, Perfecting, and The Nettle Spinner, as well as, the story collection, Way Up. Her work has been published in Granta Magazine, Maclean’s Magazine, The Walrus, Significant Objects, Storyville, Joyland, This Magazine, The Lifted Brow and 7X7LA. Her fiction has won a Danuta Gleed Award, and been nominated for The Amazon.ca First Novel Award, Toronto Book Award, CBC Canada Reads, and the Relit Award. She is the recipient of The Sidney Prize. Kathryn teaches at The University of Toronto.
About Sarah Henstra
Sarah Henstra won the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award for her novel The Red Word (ECW/Grove). She is also author of the YA novels Mad Miss Mimic (Penguin Random House Canada, 2015), which was named a CLA Best Book for Teens and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, and We Contain Multitudes (Penguin Teen/Little, Brown, 2019). Sarah is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University in Toronto.
About Adega Wine Bar
Adega is a Wine Bar & Bottle Shop serving tapas-style dishes and an impressive selection of wines. The Wine list is curated by Sommelier and Founder Thierry Alcantara-Stewart and our dishes are created by Chef Jamie Beeston.
We want to pour you a glass of wine that you'll love. Our rotating By The Glass wine list allows our guests to try a different wine whenever they visit us. Our Sommeliers will share their passion and knowledge in a fun and educational way. Let's talk about what you enjoy and find a wine that is unique to you. Our Mission is to create a safe space for our communities to gather, connect, and share their love of wine. Learn about County wines, and wines from around the world, all the while taking in the stunning landscape that is The County.
About Books & Company
Books & Company is an independent bookstore located in beautiful downtown Picton, in the heart of Prince Edward County. We offer a wide array of curated new books, games, toys, puzzles, stationery, cards, and magazines.
About Wolsak and Wynn
Wolsak & Wynn is a charmingly contrary literary press based in beautiful post-industrial Hamilton, Ontario. We’ve been publishing challenging, enchanting, unusual and often award-winning books for forty years.