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Book Launch - In Conversation with Wayne Ng
Friday, May 3, 2024 | 7pm | Owl's Nest Books
815A 49 Avenue SW Calgary, AB
Free event. Everyone welcome.
Join us in celebrating the Calgary book launch of Ottawa author Wayne Ng, and his latest book THE FAMILY CODE. The event will feature an engaging In Conversation session with Ado Nkemka. Explore the intricacies of family dynamics and the secrets that bind us in Wayne Ng’s captivating new novel. Don’t miss this insightful event that celebrates the power of storytelling!
Hosted by Ado Nkemka
About the Book
Every family has rituals and routines holding them together. But sometimes they are the very things that tear them apart. THE FAMILY CODE is a gritty family drama featuring the troubled life of Hannah Belenko, a young woman and single mother dogged by the brutality of past traumas and a code of silence that she must crack in order to be free—or else lose everything.
Hannah was raised by this code and rules her own family by it. When she loses her daughter to the state and her boyfriend threatens her, she flees from Ottawa to Halifax with her remaining son, six-year-old Axel. While she bulldozes her way through everything and schemes to protect him, Axel flounders in the chaos she creates. He begins to doubt his mother and her dream of a way out. With her life crashing down, Hannah is driven by desperation to survive yet hangs on to elusive hope.
With uncompromising grit and high-voltage prose, THE FAMILY CODE unabashedly reveals the power and perils of parenting, but also the longing and vulnerability of children.
Best Book of the Year 2023 at 49thShelf and The Miramichi Reader!
Shortlisted for the 2021 Guernica Prize, which recognizes the best literary fiction novel that pushes boundaries and is cutting edge.
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Author, Wayne Ng
Wayne Ng was born in downtown Toronto to Chinese immigrants who fed him a steady diet of bitter melons and kung fu movies. Ng is a social worker who lives to write, travel, eat and play, preferably all at the same time. He is an award-winning author and traveler who continues to push his boundaries from the Arctic to the Antarctic. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and goldfish.
Ng is the author of THE FAMILY CODE, shortlisted for the Guernica Prize; LETTERS FROM JOHNNY, winner of the Crime Writers of Canada Award for Best Crime Novella and a finalist for the Ottawa Book Award; JOHNNY DELIVERS (2024) and FINDING THE WAY: A NOVEL OF LAO TZU. Connect with Wayne at WayneNgWrites.com
Host, Ado Nkemka
A.N. is a pop-rock musician and multi-disciplinary writer (playwriting, poetry, journalism) based in Calgary, AB, on Treaty 7 territory. She holds a Bachelor of Sociology from Mount Royal University. She has written for CBC, Avenue Magazine, MRU's Summit Magazine, artsUNITE, Best Health among other publications. Her writing explores identity development, neurodivergence, and arts and culture.
A.N. has performed at Sled Island Music Festival 2022 and 2023. She was a part of Chromatic Theatre’s 2022-2023 Playwrights Unit. Her play reading for I’m Not Afraid to Die Anymore (based on her upcoming album) took place June 2023, at Arts Commons’ Motel Theatre. She is an Artist-in-Residence at Mount Royal University’s Trico Changemakers Studio, working with The Alcove Centre for the Arts to increase accessibility to the arts. She is also a part of Arts Common’s 2023-2024 TD Incubator program cohort. She performed at Wakefield Presents Pt. 2. in February 2024. Through this program, she’s developing her interdisciplinary artistry and performance prowess. She most recently opened for Vivek Shraya at Cochrane's FoundFest 2024. Her first 7-track project titled I’m Not Afraid to Die Anymore (INATDA) is expected to be released in full by summer 2024. She released the project's latest single IMPOSTER SYNDROME, March 8th 2024.
Link to IMPOSTER SYNDROME on most streaming platforms!