Join CBC host Grant Lawrence for a reading and slideshow featuring his bestselling book Adventures In Solitude: What Not to Wear to a Nude Potluck and Other Stories from Desolation Sound at Muriel Arnason Library —20338 65 Ave. —on Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.
In Adventures in Solitude, Grant shares how Desolation Sound shaped his life in music and the history of Canada. Young Grant’s father bought a piece of land next to West Coast BC’s Desolation Sound marine park in the 1970s, just in time to encounter the gun-toting cougar lady, left-over hippies, outlaw bikers and an assortment of other characters.
Lawrence has become a well-known voice across Canada for his CBC Radio 3 Podcast and his appearances on CBC Radio One programs such as DNTO, Spark, All Points West and On the Coast, and fans of independent music still turn up an old song from a record by The Smugglers, Grant’s defunct rock band. Grant’s first book, Adventures in Solitude, has become a national bestseller and literary award-winner. In 2011, he took home a BC Book Prize, and was nominated for the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction, along with the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. Join him live in Langley for a unique presentation of his head-turning book.
For more information about this free event or to register, please call the Muriel Arnason Library at 604-532-3590.