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Author Lisa Moore in conversation with Stephen Brunt
Multi-award-winning author Lisa Moore discusses her riveting non-fiction book, Invisible Prisons, with bestselling author Stephen Brunt.
An extraordinary, empathetic collaboration between Moore and Jack Whalen, Invisible Prisons is based on the shocking true story of a teenage boy who endured abuse and solitary confinement at a reform school in Newfoundland, but survived through grit and redemptive love. As a child, Whalen was held for four years at a reform school for boys in St John’s, where he suffered jaw-dropping abuses and deprivations. Despite the odds stacked against him, Whalen found love on the other side, and managed to turn his life around as a husband and father. His daughter, Brittany, vowed at a young age to become a lawyer so that she could seek justice for him. Today, that is exactly what she is doing—and Jack's case is part of a lawsuit currently before the courts.
A Different Drummer Books will be on site with books for sale and signing after the talk.
This Culture Days event is made possible with funding from the City of Burlington and presented in partnership with Penguin Random House Canada and A Different Drummer Books.
Lisa Moore was born and grew up in Newfoundland which features in many of her stories and writings. Moore has won the Commonwealth Fiction Prize, CBC’s Canada Reads, and the Writers’ Trust Engel Findley Award, and received nominations for the Man Booker Prize, Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
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Stephen Brunt is an award-winning writer and author of multiple bestselling books. He co-founded The Writers at Woody Point, a literary festival which takes place in Woody Point, Newfoundland. He currently serves as the festival’s Artistic Director.
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If you need an accessibility accommodation during this program, please register early so we can confirm arrangements a few days before your visit.
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