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In-person Arts & Culture Community

Conor Kerr

Monday, Oct. 28, 2024
7:00pm to 9:00pm

Part of: STARFest Readers Festival

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

books talks

Tickets are under $20

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Organized by: St. Albert Public Library

Oct.
28

Conor Kerr In Conversation with Jordan Abel

The Giller Prize-longlisted author of Avenue of Champions returns with a frenetic, propulsive crime thriller that doubles as a sharp critique of modern activism and challenges readers to consider what “Land Back” might really look like. Prairie Edge tells the story of two distant Métis cousins making the most of Grey’s uncle’s old trailer, passing their days playing endless games of cribbage and cracking cans of cheap beer in between. Grey, once a passionate advocate for change, has been hardened and turned cynical by an activist culture she thinks has turned performative and lazy. One night, though, she has a revelation, and enlists Ezzy, who is hopelessly devoted to her but eager to avoid the authorities after a life in and out of the group home system and jail, for a bold yet dangerous political mission: capture a herd of bison from a national park and set them free in downtown Edmonton, disrupting the churn of settler routine.

For readers drawn to the electric storytelling of Morgan Talty and the taut register of Stephen Graham Jones, Prairie Edge is at once a gripping, darkly funny caper and a raw reckoning with the wounds that persist across generations.

St. Albert Public Library (Downtown)

Forsyth Hall

5 Saint Anne Street
St. Albert, AB, T8N 3Z9