Wine & Cheese Reception & Reading with Marina Endicott

Wine & Cheese Reception
Monday July 18th - 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Polar Peek Books, 592 2nd Avenue

Polar Peek Books is the official bookstore of the Fernie Writers’ Conference and they are making everyone feel welcome with a wine and cheese reception at the store in Fernie’s historic downtown. Books by instructors will be available this evening and throughout the Conference.

Marina Endicott will read from her new novel The Little Shadowss

The Little Shadows follows three sisters into the backstage world of Polite Vaudeville before and during the First World War. Aurora, the eldest and most conventionally beautiful, is sixteen when the book opens; thoughtful Clover, a year younger; and the youngest is joyous headstrong sprite Bella. Overseen by their fond but barely coping Mama, the girls set out to make their living as a singing act after the untimely death of their father. Beginning with little in their favour save youth and hope, the sisters navigate their way to adulthood among a cast of extraordinary charmers, charlatans, eccentrics, and impresarios—and once in a rare while, a bright star with transcendent gifts. With gorgeous prose and extraordinary insight, Endicott lures us onto the brightly lit stage and then into the little shadows that lurk behind the curtain, and reveals how the art of vaudeville—in all its variety, madness, melodrama, hilarity and sorrow—echoes the art of life itself.

Marina Endicott's previous novel, Good to a Fault, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, Canada and the Caribbean, and was a finalist for the prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her first novel, Open Arms, was shortlisted for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Endicott has been an actor, director, playwright and editor, and now lives in Edmonton, Alberta.