As a black woman in Germany, for instance, I felt acutely aware of my own skin, in a way I did not at home. I had never spent any appreciable time in Germany before this, and I noticed at once both the differences there-of course-as well as the similarities, similarities made strange by the differences surrounding them. In 2005, I found myself in Stuttgart, attending an arts residency. Here is their conversation.ĮE: Through accident and happenstance, as is so often the case. Saskatoon writer dee Hobsbawn-Smith connected with Edugyan by email this spring on behalf of the college. Half-Blood Blueswon the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and the Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Prize. On that day, Edugyan will appear on campus to discuss Half-Blood Blues and her life as an author.Įsi Edugyan was born in Calgary and now lives in Victoria. Students, faculty and staff across the college will be reading Half-Blood Blues in anticipation of the author’s October 22 visit. Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan is the 2015-2016 College of Arts & Science Book Club book of the year.
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