Top 5: WordFest Reading List

WordFest welcomes more than 70 authors to talk all things word related
at events in Calgary and Banff. Herewith, a sample of books with authors
coming to the five-day literary feast.

The Measure of A Man
by JJ Lee
The
fashion-writer and tailor, JJ Lees memoir begins when he alters his late
fathers suit and continues with Lee weaving his personal history and
that of his fathers with the social history of mens suits.

We had it So Good
by Linda Grant
This
novel is a coming-of-age story that baby boomers from their hippie days
in the 1960s through four decades of living until the hope of youth
fades when the generation who never wanted to get old realizes with
melancholy that they are.

The Return
by Dany Laferrière
The
French version of this novel won the Prix Medicis. Lucky for us the
novel that follows Laferrière back to his homeland of Haiti 33 years
after he left has been translated to English.

This Will Be Difficult to Explain
by Johanna
Skibsrub
The author follows her 2010 Giller Prize-winning
book, The Sentimentalists, with a collection of short stories
that have characters encounter life-defining moments in the middle of
mostly unremarkable days.

Persuasion
by Arlene Dickinson
From
poverty, to powerful entrepreneur and co-star on CBCs Dragons Den,
Dickinson shares her take on the power of persuasion including her
tactics on how to use it in a positive way. Jaelyn Molyneux

WordFest is October 11 to 16, www.wordfest.com