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Thomas King w/ host Shelagh Rogers Virtual Event

Wednesday Jun 02 2021 7:00 pm, Virtual, Zoom
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Purchase a copy of Sufferance and receive access to the exclusive virtual launch with Thomas King and CBC Radio's Shelagh Rogers. Register with proof of purchase at indiebookfest.ca.

6 PM SK // 7 PM MB

This event is organized by HarperCollinsCanada as part of IndieBookFest.

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Sufferance

- Thomas King

Hardcover $32.99
Reader Reward Price: $29.69

Jeremiah Camp, a.k.a. the Forecaster, can look into the heart of humanity and see the patterns that create opportunities and profits for the rich and powerful. Problem is, Camp has looked one too many times, has seen what he hadn't expected to see and has come away from the abyss with no hope for himself or for the future.

So Jeremiah does what any intelligent, sensitive person would do. He runs away. Goes into hiding in a small town, at an old residential school on an even smaller Indian reserve with no phone, no Internet, no television. With the windows shut, the door locked, the mailbox removed to discourage any connection with the world, he feels safe at last. Except nobody told the locals that they should leave Jeremiah alone.

And then his past comes calling. Ash Locken, head of the Locken Group, the multinational consortium that Jeremiah has fled, arrives on his doorstep with a simple proposition. She wants our hero to formulate one more forecast, and she's not about to take no for an answer. Before he left the Locken empire, Jeremiah had put together a list of twelve names, every one a billionaire. The problem is the people on the list are dying at an alarming and unnatural rate. And Ash Locken wants to know why.

A sly and satirical look at the fractures in modern existence, Sufferance is a bold and provocative novel about the social and political consequences of the inequality created by privilege and power--and what we might do about it.