Join Amanda Leduc as she discusses Midland Public Library's Simcoe Reads pick, The Centaur's Wife.
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About Amanda Leduc
Amanda Leduc is a disabled writer and author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space, out now with Coach House Books. She is also the author of the novel The Miracles of Ordinary Men, published in 2013 by ECW Press. Her new novel, The Cenaur's Wife, is out now with Random House Canada.
Her essays and stories have appeared in LitHub, The Rumpus, Little Fiction | Big Truths, The National Post, Open Book Ontario, and other publications across Canada, the US, the UK, and Australia. She has previously been longlisted for both the CBC Nonfiction Prize (2019 and 2014) and the CBC Fiction Prize (2014), the StoryQuarterly Fiction Prize (2015), the Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in Fiction (2015), the Edna Staebler Personal Essay Contest (2014), and the 2007 PRISM International Short Fiction Contest.
Born in British Columbia, she has lived in Ontario, England, BC, and Scotland. She has cerebral palsy and presently, she makes her home in Hamilton, Ontario, where she lives with a very lovable, very destructive dog and serves as the Communications and Development Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada’s first festival for diverse authors and stories.
About Simcoe Reads:
7 Libraries. 7 Books. 1 Winner. Barrie Public Library has joined with 6 other libraries (Bradford West Gwillimbury, Essa, Innisfil, Midland, New Tecumseth, and Ramara) to offer author visits all summer long as we prepare for this cover to cover competition.
About The Centaur's Wife
In Amanda Leduc's The Centaur's Wife, Heather grew up in the shadow of a mountain; a mountain her father hoped would heal her legs, damaged at birth. When the story opens, Heather is recovering from the birth of her twins in the hospital, with her husband, having gotten married after she discovered she was pregnant. Apocalyptic events begin to take place as fire rains from the sky and plants begin to reclaim the earth. The narrative of the survivors finding each other is intertwined with fables and stories of intergenerational folk magic, including the story of a doctor who delivered triplets, and discovered their father was not what he seemed. Heather and one of those centaur triplets have had a deep connection, and it's this connection that may lead to humanity's ruin, or its survival.
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