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Along the way, mother and son explore their • Cross-Canada speaking tour, sometimes-fraught relationship, uniting — and occasionally clashing — over their mutual love of cooking. including festivals and in- conversation events A memoir about family, an exploration of the globalization of food cultures, and a meditation on the • Pre-publication excerpts complicated relationships between mothers and sons, Apron Strings is complex, unpredictable, and • Social media campaign unexpectedly hilarious. • Promotion on author’s website and social media channels JAN WONG is the author of five non-fiction bestsellers, including Out of the Blue and Red China Blues, • Co-op available named one of Time magazine’s top ten non-fiction books of 1996. (Twenty years later, the book is still in print.) She has won numerous journalism awards and is now a professor of journalism at St. Thomas University. A third-generation Canadian, Jan is the eldest daughter of a prominent Montreal restaurateur. 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And she confronts the uncomfortable truth: for gender equality to prevail, we first need to • Cross-Canada speaking tour, understand where feminism has gone wrong and where it can go from here. including festivals and in- conversation events LAUREN McKEON is an award-winning editor and writer. She is the former editor of This Magazine and • Pre-publication excerpts a contributing editor at Toronto Life. Her essays have appeared in Hazlitt, Flare, the Walrus, and Reader’s • Social media campaign Digest, and she has spoken on gender issues at conferences and seminars and on radio and television • Cross-promotion on author’s broadcasts. She teaches at Humber College. website and social media channels • Co-op available 2 GOOSE LANE EDITIONS Politics & Social Sciences 9781773100210 pb | $35 296 pages, 7.75 x 9.75 Powered By Love A Grandmothers’ Movement October 2017 Politics, Social Sciences, to End AIDS in Africa Women’s Studies JOANNA HENRY with ILANA LANDSBERG-LEWIS Rights held: World Photographs by ALEXIS MacDONALD, Foreword by STEPHEN LEWIS By the time the AIDS pandemic in Africa had reached its height in the early 2000s, millions of children had been orphaned. In the face of overwhelming loss, the grandmothers of Africa stepped in to hold families and communities together. Author Joanna Henry and photographer Alexis MacDonald visited eight African countries, interviewing and photographing hundreds of grandmothers (including Sarah Obama, Barack • ARCs Obama’s grandmother) who are reclaiming hope and resurrecting lives. The extraordinary images and stories • National advertising of resourceful women fighting for a better future make Powered by Love an inspiration for everyone. • National media relations • Cross-Canada speaking tour, Writes journalist-social activist Michele Landsberg, “We thought we knew what was happening in Africa when including festivals and in- the AIDS pandemic raged across the continent, sweeping away 35 million lives. But we never knew it the way conversation events this book reveals it, in the shockingly intimate voices of the grandmothers who had to save the abandoned • Pre-publication excerpts children when no one else was left alive. These voices will leap straight into your heart. Their unguarded • Social media campaign faces, in portraits that glow with character, pain and humour, will captivate you.” • Promotion on author’s website and social media channels In 2006, the Stephen Lewis Foundation launched a campaign to engage Canadian grandmothers to support • Co-op available their African sisters. The Grandmothers Campaign, now a movement 10,000 strong, has raised over $25 million that has gone directly into the hands of African grandmothers and their grassroots organizations. Powered by Love joins this campaign by telling the story of these indomitable women and by directing all royalties from the sale of the book to African grandmothers raising children orphaned by AIDS. JOANNA HENRY is the director of program communications at the Stephen Lewis Foundation. ILANA LANDSBERG-LEWIS, a labour and human-rights lawyer, is co-founder and executive director of the SLF. ALEXIS MACDONALD is the director of external relations and a Toronto-based photographer. Fall 2017 3 Art « ... j’ai pu intervenir simplement, sans laisser de traces durables sur le terrain. » 9780864929983 cartonné | 50 $ Marlene Creates Lieux, sentiers et pauses 204 pages, 10 x 10 septembre 2017 Sous la direction de SUSAN GIBSON GARVEY et ANDREA KUNARD art visuel Droits réservés : monde entier Coédité avec la galerie d’art Jeune encore, l’artiste Marlene Creates signalait en 1979 son intention de se démarquer des installations Beaverbrook de terrassement monumentales de l’époque pour s’intéresser, au confluent de l’art et du monde naturel, à l’éphémère, à la petite échelle, au non monumental et au lieu « pas tant comme endroit géographique, » écrit-elle, « que comme processus qui inclut la mémoire, une multiplicité de récits, l’écologie, le langage et le savoir, tant vernaculaire que scientifique. » En palliant le caractère éphémère de ses interventions grâce aux techniques photographiques, elle a su trouver son public et créer une œuvre hautement originale. Depuis près de quatre décennies, Creates s’attarde avec sensibilité aux rapports entre l’expérience humaine • Exemplaires de prépublication et le monde naturel. Dès ses premières œuvres, préservant les empreintes du corps humain sur le sol, et numériques jusqu’à ses plus récentes explorations de poésie in situ dans la forêt boréale et de photographie comme • Publicité nationale médium actif, où elle laisse le ruissellement de l’eau sur l’objectif brouiller son autoportrait, Creates exerce sa • Relations avec les médias grande vigilance écologique et culturelle pour nous amener à mieux comprendre le langage du monde naturel francophones et les « lieux » que nous y occupons.