Join the 100% Certainty Book Club as we share the time and the opportunity to discuss life, love and loss in the context of great books. Together we work to comfortably grow the conversations around illness and dying, in a warm and supportive space.
This month we will discuss Denison Avenue by Daniel Innes (illustrations) and Christina Wong (text).
A Canada Reads selection, Denison Avenue is a moving story told in visual art and fiction about gentrification, aging in place, grief, and vulnerable Chinese Canadian elders.
Bringing together ink artwork and fiction, Denison Avenue follows the elderly Wong Cho Sum, who, living in Toronto's gentrifying Chinatown–Kensington Market, begins to collect bottles and cans after the sudden loss of her husband as a way to fill her days and keep grief and loneliness at bay. In her long walks around the city, Cho Sum meets new friends, confronts classism and racism, and learns how to build a life as a widow in a neighborhood that is being destroyed and rebuilt, leaving elders like her behind.
Copies of the book are available to borrow. Please register in advance.