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Diana Evans and Derek Owusu - Looking Back To Where They Came From
- THIS EVENT HAS EXPIRED
- Tickets
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£11.20 (£10 ticket charge plus £1.20 booking fee)
- Dates and times
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25th May 2023
6:00PM - 7:00PM
- Age
- Over 14s only. Under 16s must be accompanied by an adult., Adult
Two spellbinding novels examine the immigrant experience and the stories we share and tell about our lives.
In Diana Evans’s A House For
Alice, after fifty years in the wilderness of London, Alice wants to
live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether
she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father's death, the imagined
stability of the family begins to fray.
Meanwhile youngest daughter Melissa has never
let go of a love she lost, and Michael in return, even within the sturdy walls
of his marriage to the sparkling Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of
the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between
Melissa and her sisters, Michael and Nicole, rises to the surface . . .
Set against the shadows of a city and a country
in turmoil, Diana Evans's ordinary people confront fundamental questions. How
should we raise our children? How to do right by our parents? And how, in the
midst of everything, can we satisfy ourselves?
Driven by a deep-seated desire to
understand his mother's life before he was born, Derek Owusu offers a powerful
imagining of her journey. As she moves from Ghana to the UK and navigates
parenthood in a strange and often lonely environment, the effects of displacement
are felt across generations.
Told through the eyes of both mother and son, Losing
the Plot is at once emotionally raw and playful as Owusu
experiments with form to piece together the immigrant experience and explore
how the stories we share and tell ourselves are just as vital as the
ones we don't.
Derek Owusu has been announced as one of the Best of Young British Novelists by the literary magazine Granta.
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**To allow for refurbishment works, the café at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall will close on Monday 8th July and reopen on Monday 5th August.**
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Location Map
With many different rooms and breakout areas available, the complex can accommodate meetings and conferences from 12 - 2000 delegates. Visit the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall's venue hire web page to find out more.