Wednesday, May 16 @ 7:30pm FREE
Hart House Library
(7 Hart House Circle)

CORDELIA STRUBE, accomplished playwright and acclaimed author of five previous critically acclaimed novels, brings her latest book, Planet Reese, her writing skills, and talent as a teacher of creative writing to the Reading Series for a night of dynamic discussion about the craft of writing and Planet Reese.

In her seventh novel, Cordelia grabs readers by the neuroses with a dark and wickedly funny story about Reese, a former Greenpeace crusader turned “for-profit” marketeer, who battles against a world-gone-mad in a desperate attempt to regain a life — and a family — that has drifted away from him. As chaos turns into calamity, Reese tries in vain to keep both feet on a planet that seems unfit for anyone with an inner activist — or anyone struggling to shut that inner activist up.

Engaging, enlightening, and always entertaining, Planet Reese is an intensely personal and endearing tale of a man holding onto his sanity against all odds in an increasingly unhinged world.

Cordelia Strube is an accomplished playwright and author of six critically acclaimed novels. Her first novel, Alex and Zee, was shortlisted for the W.H. Smith / Books in Canada First Novel Award, and her third novel Teaching Pigs to Sing, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award. Her play Mortal won the CBC Literary Competition and was nominated for the Prix Italia. She lives with her family in Toronto where she teaches at Ryerson University. Her most recent novel is Blind Night.