The Centaur’s Wife

with Amanda Leduc

hosted by Julie S. Lalonde Podcast Fiction

Admission

Free

Friday

Feb , 2021

12:01pm

Eastern

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Amanda Leduc · Photo by Trevor Cole

Amanda Leduc has created an exquisite magical world, perfectly rendered, for her dark and wonderful story about the dream life of outsiders and the disabled. And through it, she has scattered her own collection of fairy tales that rival Grimm and Anderson in their provocative beauty.

Heather O’Neill

Author and educator Julie S. Lalonde hosts a conversation with acclaimed author Amanda Leduc.

Amanda Leduc's brilliant new novel, The Centaur’s Wife, is woven with fairy tales of her own devising and replete with both catastrophe and magic. It is a vision of what happens when we ignore the natural world and the darker parts of our own natures.

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The Authors

Amanda Leduc

Amanda Leduc's essays and stories have appeared in publications across Canada, the US and the UK. She is the author of the non-fiction book Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space (Coach House Books, 2020) and the novel The Miracles of Ordinary Men (2013, ECW Press). She has cerebral palsy and lives in Hamilton, Ontario, where she works as the Communications Coordinator for the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD), Canada's first festival for diverse authors and stories.