STARFest Conversations with Theresa Shea

STARFest Conversations is a series of cozy Sunday afternoon author visits at the Library.  Read the book, bring your questions and come chat with an amazing local author.

 

Theresa Shea joins us in April to talk about her 2021 historical fiction novel, The Shade Tree. This compelling and dramatic exploration of racial injustice and conflict is set against the backdrop of some of America's most turbulent historical events. The lives of two white sisters and a Black midwife are inextricably linked through a series of haunting tragedies, and the characters must make difficult, life-changing decisions about where their loyalties lie: with their biological families or with a greater moral cause.

 

The Shade Tree won the 2020 Guernica Prize (for best unpublished literary manuscript by a Canadian) and the 2022 Alberta Writers Guild Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction.