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Cozy Fest: Elaine McCluskey + The Gift Child
In her Cozy Fest reading, Elaine McCluskey introduces us to the small fishing village of Pollock Passage, NS – and the host of wild characters within it – from her novel The Gift Child (Goose Lane Editions).
Elaine McCluskey reads from The Gift Child
(Goose Lane Editions)
About our reader
Elaine McCluskey writes about the people you might find in the corners of life: boxers, bouncers, and dreamers. She has published four acclaimed short-story collections — Rafael Has Pretty Eyes; Hello, Sweetheart; Valery the Great; and The Watermelon Social — and three novels, The Gift Child, Going Fast, and The Most Heartless Town in Canada. Rafael Has Pretty Eyes won the 2023 Alistair MacLeod prize for short fiction. Her stories have appeared in over twenty literary journals including Room, The Dalhousie Review, subTerrain, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, and Other Voices. She lives in Dartmouth, NS.
Photo of Elaine credit Andrew Vaughan.
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Thanks to Elaine for reading from her book for All Lit Up’s third-annual Cozy Fest! You can learn more about The Gift Child, and order from ALU or your fave local bookstore (via the Shop Local button), right here.
For more to come, or to catch up on Cozy Fest, click here.
