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An Evening with Thomas Wharton

Saturday May 27 2023 7:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park in the Atrium, Streaming via YouTube
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Join acclaimed author Thomas Wharton as he visits Winnipeg to discuss his new novel, The Book of Rain (Random House of Canada), with host Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers. Co-presented by The Winnipeg International Writers' Festival.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events here at the store.

The northern mining town of River Meadows is one of three hotspots in the world producing ghost ore, a new source of energy worth twenty-eight times its weight in gold. It's also linked with slippages of time and space that gradually render the area uninhabitable. After the town is evacuated, the whole region is cordoned off, the new no-go zone wryly nicknamed "the Park."

Three intertwined stories flow from the disaster of River Meadows, forming a groundbreaking, deeply affecting work of environmental literary suspense for fans of Cloud Atlas, The Overstory, and Station Eleven. As sweeping in scope as a world of its own, The Book of Rain is a novel of epic reach, beautifully multi-layered, haunting and profound.

Thomas Wharton’s first novel, Icefields, won the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize, the Writers Guild of Alberta First Book Award, and a regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. He now lives and teaches English in Edmonton where he is at work on his next novel, set in the present day.

Host Chris Hall has been with McNally Robinson Booksellers for more than twenty-five years, more than ten of which as owner. When he isn't reading or walking he loves to travel and cook. He lives in Winnipeg and is currently training his daughters to be booksellers.

See:

The Book of Rain

- Thomas Wharton

Hardcover $35.95
Reader Reward Price: $32.36