This Article Will Not Save Your Life
This fall we’re inviting you to get away from your ordinary lives and experience something dark, humorous and unlike anything you’ve ever heard before…
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Enter into the world of a family so heavily in conflict that all that can result is misfortune. Guided by a distraught mother and an overly passive father, one of their daughters develops a lethal obesity and the other a sick promiscuity that leads both of them to near death situations. This sounds noir but you got only a sample of the surface; dig deeper into the tale and witness events so distasteful that all you can do is be thankful that the characters aren’t real. Indeed, as the story title suggests, This Book Will Not Save Your Life.
So what’s really in it for you then?
Well next to the occasional laugh-out-loud humour, the tale is packed with drama that will keep you interested in the events that follow. More importantly, it provides some insight into the inner-workings of a dysfunctional family – the sources, perpetuations and challenges, which Michelle Berry, author of the story, suggests is much more common than we think especially in suburban communities.
Above all, you have the opportunity to meet Michelle Berry in-person and participate in an interesting dialogue about what happens when the glue in a family is not sticking.
The Eh List with Michelle Berry
Thursday October 6, 2 p.m.
Barbara Frum Library, 3rd Floor Auditorium
Download The Eh List with Michelle Berry and share it with your friends & family
On the topic of dark humour, I leave you with this:
“Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end." – Jerry Seinfeld.
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