Migration Songs
by Anna Quon
co-sponsored by Invisible Publishing
FRIDAY OCTOBER 2, 7pm
toronto women’s bookstore
73 Harbord Street (west of Spadina, south side)
free. all welcome. refreshments provided.
we regret that our washroom is not wheelchair accessible.
“It’s the morning after I quit work, and it’s my birthday. I’m turning thirty, and I feel like an empty oil drum, rusting away in the junkyard, weeds growing up around it.”
Joan is on the brink. Cough drop addict, school bus driver, mixed race daughter of a Maoist English father and Chinese-Canadian mother, Joan struggles for meaning after a friend’s death reveals a secret life. Migration Songs is a lost letter from your past, an intimate experience full of humour and grace.
ANNA QUON is a writer and writing group facilitator living in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. She writes with compassion and ferocity about the struggle to grow up without a tribe of one’s own.
Migration Songs is drawn from her own experience as a half-Chinese- Canadian raised on Canada’s East Coast and her own ambivalence about belonging. This is Quon’s first novel.
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