Join us for the launch of Marina Endicott’s novel The Voyage of the Morning Light (published in the UK as The Difference), a story of two seafaring sisters in the 1900s who must confront their missionary father’s decision to separate their adopted brother from his native land and culture. She will be joined by the New Yorker’s Mary Norris (author of Greek to Me) to discuss the residential school system in Canada and the joys of a life well-traveled.
Featured Books
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The Voyage of the Morning Light
By Marina Endicott
Published by WW Norton
This sweeping story is set aboard the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912.
Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side of the world.
Inspired by a true story, Marina Endicott shows us a now-vanished world in all its wonder, and in its darkness, prejudice, and difficulty, too. She also brilliantly illuminates our present time through Kay’s examination of the idea of “difference”—between people, classes, continents, cultures, customs and species.
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Greek to Me: Adventures of the Comma Queen
By Mary Norris
Published by WW Norton
Mary Norris, the New Yorker’s Comma Queen and best-selling author of Between You & Me, has had a lifelong love affair with words. In Greek to Me, she delivers a delightful paean to the art of self-expression through accounts of her solo adventures in the land of olive trees and ouzo. Along the way, Norris explains how the alphabet originated in Greece, makes the case for Athena as a feminist icon, and reveals the surprising ways in which Greek helped form English. Greek to Me is filled with Norris’s memorable encounters with Greek words, Greek gods, Greek wine–and more than a few Greek men.
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