Creative Aging Books & Ideas
presents
KATH JONATHAN
author of the just released
Instant Bestseller
“The Resistance Painter”
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 2 p.m.
Photo credit: Marion Voysey
The Resistance Painter asks how one can live with compassion and integrity in the midst of war, and if one can ever take a middle ground and remain morally clear. It also asks whether the stories families tell can be trusted as valid memories.
The novel is set in 1940’s Warsaw and 2010 Toronto and two of the main characters are artists: Irena is the young painter of the title who joins the resistance and guides people through the sewers of Warsaw to safety from the Nazis. Jo, her granddaughter in the later story, is a sculptor specializing in making sculptures for grave sites. When the man she’s interviewing for her latest sculpture reveals a past very similar to her grandmother’s, Irena’s and Jo’s stories collide. The unfolding mystery unmakes both their worlds.
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Creative Aging Books & Ideas
presents
Former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
BEVERLEY McLACHLIN
THURSDAY, MAY 29,2 p.m.
Beverley McLachlin has led an extraordinary life. One of the few women studying law in the 1960s, she graduated at the top of her class and began her long career—first as a dedicated lawyer and professor, later as a judge serving on the highest court in the country, and finally as the first woman to be named Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Beverley will be in conversation with Cece as she reads from her memoir, Truth Be Told, a book that offers an intimate and revealing look at her life, from her childhood in the Alberta foothills to her career on the Supreme Court, where she helped to shape the social and moral fabric of the country.
From a very early age, all I knew was that I wanted to do something that was not ordinary. Because, for a girl growing up in a remote prairie town in the 1940s, the ordinary was very ordinary indeed.
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