Event Details
When feelings challenge expectations, romance becomes a journey of trust, vulnerability, and self-discovery.
Event Details
When feelings challenge expectations, romance becomes a journey of trust, vulnerability, and self-discovery.
Speakers for this event
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Farah Heron
Farah Heron
Farah Heron is a critically acclaimed author for adults and teens. Her books have been named as best books of the year by CBC books, USA Today, and NPR. She writes rom-coms and romances full of South Asian families, delectable food, and most importantly, brown people falling stupidly in love. Farah’s adult books include A LITTLE HOLIDAY FLING and ACCIDENTALLY ENGAGED, and her young adult books include REMEMBER ME TOMORROW, and THE BAD BOTFRIEND CURSE. Farah lives in Toronto with her family.
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June Hur
June Hur
June Hur (허주은) is the #1 New York Times bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of YA Korean historicals, including The Silence of Bones, The Forest of Stolen Girls, The Red Palace,A Crane Among Wolves and Behind Five Willows. Born in South Korea, June spent her formative years in the USA, Canada, and South Korea before studying History and Literature at the University of Toronto and working at the city’s public library. Her work has been featured in Forbes, NPR, The New York Times, CBC, Vogue Korea, and KBS. She resides in Toronto with her husband and two kids.
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Lucy Mann
Lucy Mann
Lucy Mann is the producer of Canada Reads and a member of the children’s book panel on CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. She also curates book lists for children and teens for CBC Books. Mann grew up in Montreal, before moving to London, England for 15 years where she worked in children’s content at the BBC, Penguin Random House UK and a prominent UK children’s not-for-profit. She currently lives in Toronto with her young family.
Books
Behind Five Willows
As the dutiful second-eldest daughter of a poor family, society would have Haewon believe that her only hope of a decent life is to marry well. But during a time of rampant government censorship and book banning, she instead works as an illegal book transcriber to make a little extra money. It’s dangerous work, but she loves it—especially when she gets to transcribe the work of her favorite author, known as Black Lotus.
When her older sister becomes smitten with a wealthy young gentleman, Haewon is roped into chaperoning them during their courtship. Which wouldn’t be so terrible… if it weren’t for the young man’s uptight and annoying best friend who also accompanies them.
As the only son of a noble, Seojun has a lot expected of him. Wealth. Status. Respectability. Certainly not frivolous and often illicit activities such as reading fiction. But Seojun loves to do something even more scandalous: writing. He’s kept his work secret from his father and friends, but with each passing day, the pressure of being his father’s son and the dispiriting actions of the government make Seojun question the purpose of it all. The only thing keeping him going are the encouraging letters he receives from his transcriber, known only as Magpie.
When his best friend falls hard for a girl of lower social status, Seojun finds himself forced to act as chaperone to the infatuated couple—along with the girl’s younger sister, who is as irritating as she is judgmental. But as Haewon and Seojun spend more time together, they begin to suspect they may have judged each other too quickly…
AuthorJune Hur
PublisherFeiwel and friends (Macmillan)
The Bad Boyfriend Curse
From Farah Heron, the critically acclaimed author of adult rom-com Accidentally Engaged, comes a story about a goody-two-shoes teen who concocts a brilliant plan to fake-date the local bad boy to rebel against her mom.
Meera Noorani has spent her whole life playing it safe.
Raised by her single mom, she’s had to—especially in love. After all, it has been proven, generation after generation, that all Noorani women are cursed to have partners who ruin their lives.
And though she tried her best to avoid it, Meera’s fate comes a-calling, and within the span of a week, she’s broken up with, arrested, and then shipped to small-town Canada, where she’ll be completing her community service under the watchful eye of her mom and her new stepdad.
Meera’s spent her whole life being good, and this is the thanks she gets?
If she can pose a threat to Mom’s perfect new life, though, maybe she can get back to the city. And there’s no better way to do that than date one of her fellow teen delinquents. Noah has got the piercings, tattoos, and rumors to prove that he’s the town’s most infamous bad boy…but when the bad boy isn’t actually bad, what’s a girl meant to do?
AuthorFarah Heron
PublisherSimon & Schuster Canada