Anthony Bidulka Book Launch (OFFSITE EVENT)
Friday May 06 2022 7:00 pm, Saskatoon, Roxy Theatre
Please note this event will take place at the Roxy Theatre, 320 20th St West,
Saskatoon, SK.
Join Anthony Bidulka to celebrate the launch of his new novel Going to Beautiful. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for a cocktail reception featuring "Beautiful" snacks then a 7:30 performance by Ukrainian vocalist Kateryna Grace, with author presentation and book signing to follow. This is a mask-friendly event with space for social distancing.
International chef Jake Hardy has it all, until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world—a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot—a place where doubts begin to surface about whether Jake’s tragedy was truly an accident after all.
In Bidulka’s “love letter to life on the prairies” he delivers a story of grief and loss that manages to burst with joy, tenderness and hope.
Anthony Bidulka’s books have been nominated for numerous awards and he was the first Canadian to win the Lambda Literary Award for Best Men’s Mystery. He was inducted to the University of Saskatchewan College of Education Wall of Honour, received the College of Arts and Science Alumni of Influence Award, the Ukrainian Canadian Congress Nation Builders Award and named Saskatoon Citizen of the Year.
See:
Going to Beautiful
- Anthony Bidulka 
Trade paperback
$22.00
Reader Reward Price: $19.80
Winner of 2023 IPPY Award, and CWC Best Crime Novel 2023 -International chef Jake Hardy has it all. Celebrity, thriving career, plenty of friends, a happy family and faithful dog. Until one day when a tragic accident tears it all apart. Struggling to recover, Hardy finds himself in a strange new world-a snow-swept prairie town that time forgot-a place where nothing makes sense. Cold is beautiful. Simple is complex. And doubts begin to surface about whether Jake's tragedy was truly an accident after all. As the sun sets in the Land of Living Skies, Hardy and his glamourous, seventy-eight-year-old transgender neighbour find themselves ensnared in multiple murders separated by decades. In Bidulka's "love letter to life on the prairies" he delivers a story of grief and loss that manages to burst with joy, tenderness and hope. Redolent of his earlier works, Going to Beautiful brings us unexpected, under-represented characters in settings that immediately feel familiar and beloved. Beautiful-a place where what you need may not be what you were looking for.
