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Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading group devoted to classic and contemporary works of LGBTQ literature. The book we will be discussing is Girl, Woman, Other (2019) by Bernardine Evaristo.

Toustes sont invitses au Violet Hour Book Club, et chacun.e est bienvenu.e partager ses penses sur le livreen anglais ou en franais.

We will be meeting at Espace des Possibles Petite-Patrie (6450 Avenue Christophe Colomb, Beaubien Metro). LEspace des Possibles a comme mission doffrir un lieu dentraide, dapprentissages et dimplication ddi la transitionsociale et cologique (la transition socio-cologique). The spaceis wheelchair accessible.

The space is given to us for free, but VHBC participants are welcome to make voluntary contributions to helpsupport our mandate to create LGBTQ literary events for Montrealers.

A reminder: All VHBC titles areavailable at Librairie ParagrapheBookstore (2220, McGill College Ave) at 15% off and at Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington St.) at 10% off.

ABOUT THE BOOK ///

Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the stateof contemporary Britain and looksback to the legacy of Britainscolonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.

The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwrightwhose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in Londons funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirleys former students, is a successful investment banker;Caroles mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughters lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. Froma nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of theiridentities, from age to race to sexuality to class.

Sparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows techniquefrom poetry, Girl, Woman, Other is a polyphonic and richly texturedsocial novel that shows a side ofBritain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.

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