Loss & Redemption
Readings by Farzana Doctor & Malaika Amadea
Time: 6:30pm-8:00pm
Venue: Leva (11053 86 Ave)
Thursday, Oct. 20st
Farzana will be reading from her second novel, Six Metres of Pavement, a story about a middle-aged South Asian man who made the worst mistake of his life. His story begins to change after he reluctantly befriends two women: Fatima, a young queer activist kicked out of her parents’ home; and Celia, his grieving Portuguese-Canadian neighbour who lives just six metres away.
Farzana Do…ctor is a Toronto-based author and the recipient of the Writers’ Trust of Canada’s Dayne Ogilvie Grant for an emerging gay Canadian author (2011). Her first novel, Stealing Nasreen, received critical acclaim and earned a devoted readership upon its release in 2007. She is currently touring her second book, Six Metres of Pavement (Dundurn 2011), which Publishers Weekly has praised as “..a paean to second chances.” In her spare time, she provides private practice consulting and psychotherapy services and is a co-curator of the Brockton Writers Series. www.farzanadoctor.com
