Book and Ticket Event: Gutter Child with author Jael Richardson
Thu, Mar 25
|Purchase Gutter Child to receive event link
JICS' first book and ticket event! Purchase Gutter Child from Another Story with the code "JICS Gutter Child event" to receive a ticket to the event.
Time & Location
Mar 25, 2021, 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EDT
Purchase Gutter Child to receive event link
About The Event
Join us for a night of Q&A with Jael Richardson, author and artistic director of the FOLD literary festival, the books columnist on CBC Radio’s q and an outspoken advocate on issues of diversity. Moderated by Harper Collins Editor and JICS Parent, Jennifer Lambert.
About Gutter Child:
A fierce and illuminating debut from FOLD founder Jael Richardson about a young woman who must find the courage to determine her own future and secure her freedom.
Set in an imagined world in which the most vulnerable are forced to buy their freedom by working off their debt to society, Gutter Child uncovers a nation divided into the privileged Mainland and the policed Gutter. In this world, Elimina Dubois is one of only 100 babies taken from the Gutter and raised in the land of opportunity as part of a social experiment led by the Mainland government.
But when her Mainland mother…