Brescia Events Calendar

Brescia Events Calendar

 

Jeanne Adamson Memorial Lecture

An Evening with Ami McKay

Bestselling author of The Birth House

and The Virgin Cure

Thursday 17 May 2012, 7:30 pm

Brescia University College Auditorium

Admission by Donation, Free Parking

          

Ami McKay’s debut novel, The Birth House was a # 1 bestseller in Canada, winner of three CBA Libris Awards, nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and a book club favourite around the world. Her new novel. The Virgin Cure, is inspired by the life of her great- great grandmother, Dr. Sarah Fonda Mackintosh, a female physician in nineteenth century New York. Born and raised in Indiana, Ami now lives in Nova Scotia.

Sponsored by The Circle Women's Centre