Tonight!!!!!!
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femme41Book Launch for
Code White
by Debra Anderson
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 7pm
@ TWB, 73 Harbord St
“Code White is Girl, Interrupted gone fin-de-millenium femme-tastic. Who knew the pysch ward could be so sexy? Alex will make you laugh and break your heart a hundred times more. Debra Anderson is a sharp, smart and breathtakingly insightful writer in full-possession of the world she has created in this stunning debut novel.” -Chandra Mayor, Winner of The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
Alex wakes up covered in mud in a psych ward with no memory of how she got there. Detailing her life after a sudden manic episode, she keeps a diary of the often hilariously bizarre details of her days on the inside. The other patients are getting on her nerves. Her friends on the outside don’t know how to deal with her incarceration. Stubbornly insisting on control, Alex scopes her ward-mates, skirmishes with the staff for information on her treatment and stays true to her high-femme identity even while drapped in hospital-issued pyjama bottoms. Code White is an innovative story of psychiatric confinement told with unflinching honesty, humour and acknowledgment of sexuality in a setting that often lacks all three.
Debra Anderson is an award-winning writer, playwright and filmmaker and a graduate of the York University Creative Writing Program. A regular on the Toronto reading scene for most of the last decade, Debra’s writing has been anthologized in Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan, 2003), Bent: On Writing (Women’s Press, 2002) and the Lambda-nominated Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity (Arsenal, 2002) and various Canadian literary journals. Debra Anderson currently resides in Toronto, where she was born and raised. Code White is her first novel.
Free Admission. Wheelchair Accessible.
Co-sponsored by McGilligan Books.
Code White
by Debra Anderson
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 7pm
@ TWB, 73 Harbord St
“Code White is Girl, Interrupted gone fin-de-millenium femme-tastic. Who knew the pysch ward could be so sexy? Alex will make you laugh and break your heart a hundred times more. Debra Anderson is a sharp, smart and breathtakingly insightful writer in full-possession of the world she has created in this stunning debut novel.” -Chandra Mayor, Winner of The Carol Shields Winnipeg Book Award
Alex wakes up covered in mud in a psych ward with no memory of how she got there. Detailing her life after a sudden manic episode, she keeps a diary of the often hilariously bizarre details of her days on the inside. The other patients are getting on her nerves. Her friends on the outside don’t know how to deal with her incarceration. Stubbornly insisting on control, Alex scopes her ward-mates, skirmishes with the staff for information on her treatment and stays true to her high-femme identity even while drapped in hospital-issued pyjama bottoms. Code White is an innovative story of psychiatric confinement told with unflinching honesty, humour and acknowledgment of sexuality in a setting that often lacks all three.
Debra Anderson is an award-winning writer, playwright and filmmaker and a graduate of the York University Creative Writing Program. A regular on the Toronto reading scene for most of the last decade, Debra’s writing has been anthologized in Geeks, Misfits and Outlaws (McGilligan, 2003), Bent: On Writing (Women’s Press, 2002) and the Lambda-nominated Brazen Femme: Queering Femininity (Arsenal, 2002) and various Canadian literary journals. Debra Anderson currently resides in Toronto, where she was born and raised. Code White is her first novel.
Free Admission. Wheelchair Accessible.
Co-sponsored by McGilligan Books.
