{"product_id":"author-visit-loghan-paylor","title":"Tickets: Loghan Paylor Author Visit","description":"\u003cp\u003eSQUAMISH: THIS IS A \u003cstrong\u003eBIG\u003c\/strong\u003e DEAL!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGather Bookshop is welcoming \u003cstrong\u003e2026 Canada Reads Winner \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/loghanpaylor.com\/\" title=\"Loghan Paylor Website\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLoghan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/loghanpaylor.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e Paylor\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003efor an evening of literary joy at the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/xCNtnP4ddreqx5REh\" title=\"Eagle Eye Theatre Directions\"\u003eEagle \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/xCNtnP4ddreqx5REh\" title=\"Eagle Eye Theatre Directions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEye\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/share.google\/xCNtnP4ddreqx5REh\" title=\"Eagle Eye Theatre Directions\"\u003e Theatre\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE EVENT:\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e6:30-8:30 on FRIDAY OCTOBER 2 \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor talk hosted by Julie Wilkins (Owner, Gather Bookshop)\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAudience Q\u0026amp;A \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBook sales \u0026amp; Author signing\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBeverage partner TBD\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBookish Joy\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e$1 of each \u003cstrong\u003e$5 ticket \u003c\/strong\u003egoes to \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/gatherliterarysociety.ca\"\u003eGather \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/gatherliterarysociety.ca\" title=\"Gather Literary Society\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/gatherliterarysociety.ca\"\u003e Society\u003c\/a\u003e (the rest to our special guest) 🤍 📖\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eLoghan Paylor is a queer, trans writer whose first novel \u003cem\u003eThe Cure for Drowning\u003c\/em\u003e  (Randomhouse Canada 2024) won \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/books\/canadareads\" title=\"Canada Reads\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eCanada Reads\u003c\/a\u003e 2026, was long-listed for the 2024 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gillerprize.ca\/\" title=\"Giller Prize\"\u003eGiller \u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gillerprize.ca\/\" title=\"Giller Prize\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ePrize\u003c\/a\u003e, named a Globe and Mail Best Book, and a finalist for the Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize and the Jim Deva Prize for Writing That Provokes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTheir work has also appeared in \u003cem\u003eRoom\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePrairiefire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCBC Art\u003c\/em\u003es and on the long-list for the CBC Nonfiction Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA graduate of The Writer’s Studio at Simon Fraser University, they have an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and divide their time between teaching, writing, and co-owning a game company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eABOUT THE BOOK:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEvocative, magical and luminously written, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/gatherbookshop.com\/products\/9781039006454?_pos=1\u0026amp;_psq=cure+for+drowning\u0026amp;_psid=8a2f41ee4\u0026amp;_ss=e\" title=\"Product Page Cure for Drowning\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eThe Cure for Drowning\u003c\/a\u003e is not only a brilliant, boundary-pushing love story but a Canadian historical novel that boldly centres queer and non-binary characters in unprecedented ways.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eBorn Kathleen to an immigrant Irish farming family in southern Ontario, Kit McNair has been a troublesome changeling since, at ten, they fell through the river ice and drowned—only to be nursed back to life by their mother’s Celtic magic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eA daredevil in boy’s clothes, Kit chafes at every aspect of a farmgirl’s life, driving that same mother to distraction with worry about where Kit will ever fit in. When Rebekah Kromer, an elegant German-Canadian doctor’s daughter, moves to town with her parents in April 1939, Rebekah has no doubt as to who 19-year-old Kit is. Soon she and Kit, and Kit’s older brother, Landon, are drawn tight in a love triangle that will tear them and their families apart, and send each of them off on a separate path to war. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eLandon signs up for the Navy. Kit, now known as Christopher, joins the Royal Air Force, becoming a bomber navigator relied on for his luck and courage. Rebekah serves with naval intelligence in Halifax, until one more collision with Landon changes the course of her life and draws her back to the McNair farm—a place where she’d once known love. Fallen on even harder times, the McNairs welcome all the help she is able to give, and she believes she has found peace at last. Until, with the war over, Kit and Landon return home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"\u003eTold in the vivid, unforgettable voices of Kit and Rebekah, The Cure for Drowning is a powerfully engrossing novel that imagines a history that is truer than true.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Offsite Event","offers":[{"title":"General Admission","offer_id":50025308848370,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Accessible Seating","offer_id":50025312190706,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0541\/2713\/2865\/files\/entrance_5.png?v=1788546829","url":"https:\/\/gatherbookshop.com\/products\/author-visit-loghan-paylor","provider":"Gather Books \u0026 Lovely Things","version":"1.0","type":"link"}