Please join award-winning author of
Stones for my Father
(Tundra, 2011)
and
Medina Hill
(Tundra, 2009)
Trilby Kent
in celebrating the launch of
Once, in a Town Called Moth
by Trilby Kent
Tundra Books
978-1-10191-811-1
224 pp.
Ages 12+
September 2016
on
Friday, September 16, 2016
7:00 pm
Type Books
883 Queen Street West,
Toronto, ON
About the book:
Ana is
not your typical teenager. She grew up in a tiny Mennonite colony in
Bolivia, and her mother fled the colony when Ana was a young girl. Now
Ana and her father have also fled, and Ana doesn't know why. She only
knows that something was amiss in their tight-knit community. Arriving
in Toronto, Ana has to fend for herself in this alien environment,
completely isolated in a big city with no help and no idea where to even
begin. But begin she does: she makes a friend, then two. She goes to
school and tries to understand the myriad unspoken codes and rules. She
is befriended by a teacher. She goes to the library, the mall, parties.
And all the while, she searches for the mother who left so long ago, and
tries to understand her father -- also a stranger in a strange land,
with secrets of his own.
This is a beautifully told story that will resonate with readers who have struggled with being new and unsure in a strange place, even if that place is in a classroom full of people they know. Ana's story is unique but universal; strange but familiar; extraordinary but ordinary: a fish out of water tale that speaks to us all.
(Retrieved from http://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/532570/once-town-called-moth#9781101918111 on September 4, 2016.)
