Lorenzo Reading with Sarah Henstra-CANCELLED-SJ

Event Details:

Author Sarah Henstra will read from The Red Word, winner of the 2018 Governor General’s Literary Award.

A smart, dark, and take-no-prisoners look at rape culture and the extremes to which ideology can go, The Red Word is a campus novel like no other. It captures the feverish binarism of campus politics and the headlong rush of youth toward new friends, lovers, and life-altering ideas. With strains of Jeffrey Eugenides’s The Marriage Plot, Alison Lurie’s Truth and Consequences, and Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons, Sarah Henstra’s debut adult novel arrives on the wings of furies.

Sarah Henstra is also author of the YA novels Mad Miss Mimic, which was named a CLA Best Book for Teens, and a finalist for the Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People and We Contain Multitudes. Henstra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Ryerson University in Toronto.

Building: Ganong Hall

Room Number: Lecture Theatre