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Hear from The Sun Makes a Sound, the debut novel by Andy Whitman. A Canadian novel full of intensity, magical realism, pessimism, optimism and more.
This is an in-person program
The Sun Makes a Sound
The story is like Life of Pi (Yann Martel) meets Lost (TV series), or The Beach (Alex Garland) meets Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk), with the tone of a modern, post-colonial Franz Kafka, or Cormac McCarthy on acid. The tradition of Latino magical realism from Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez is uprooted, remixed, and firmly re-planted into Canadian soil.
Learn more on the publishers, Pete's Press, website here.
Presenter Information:
Andy Whitman grew up in an Argentine-Canadian family in Mississauga, Ontario, but moved west to work and study and fall in love. He currently works as an environmental scientist and calls Regina's Cathedral neighbourhood home. Andy has published creative writing since 2011 under the pseudonym Jack Caseros. His short stories, poetry, and essays have appeared in Flash Fiction Magazine, Syntax & Salt Magazine, and Acentos Review, among other great venues, and his flash fiction was awarded as a runner-up in the 2018 True North Writing Contest. Andy's debut novel, The Sun Makes a Sound, was just released from Pete’s Press in September, 2024.
This event is sponsored by the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild
The Saskatchewan Writers' Guild receives funding from: SaskCulture and Saskatchewan Lottery
Central Library, the largest of the nine Branches in the Regina Public Library system, is a social and informational hub in the heart of downtown Regina. The Library maintains an extensive calendar of programs, training opportunities, art exhibits in the Dunlop Art Gallery, along with film screenings in the Library's very own repertory film theatre!
