BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20261022T230000Z DTEND:20261023T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Author Talks DESCRIPTION:Ghosts. Grief\, and Growing Up: YA Storytelling with Bestselling Author Cherie Dimline\n\nStep into the atmospheric and deeply moving world of storytelling with acclaimed M tis author Cherie Dimaline as we discuss her captivating body of work and her haunting Young Adult novel\, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls.\n\nSet in a cemetery shed where sixteen-year-old Winifred lives with her dad\, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls follows a teen whose attempt to save her father's job leads to a fake ghost rumor and accidentally summons a very real\, opinionated spirit named Phil. Through this eerie yet heartwarming story\, Dimaline crafts a haunting masterpiece about grief\, survival\, identity\, and unexpected connections across the boundary of life and death.\n\nBeyond her graveyard-set YA novel\, we will explore Dimaline's expansive literary career from the groundbreaking dystopian survival narrative of The Marrow Thieves and its sequel Hunting by Stars\, to the dark\, magic-infused folklore of her adult novels like Empire of Wild and VenCo.\n\nSponsored by the Friends of the Oil City Library & the Friends of the Franklin Public Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Ghosts. Grief\, and Growing Up: YA Storytelling with Bestselling Author Cherie Dimline
\nStep into the atmospheric and deeply moving world of storytelling with acclaimed Mé\;tis author Cherie Dimaline as we discuss her captivating body of work and her haunting Young Adult novel\, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls.
\nSet in a cemetery shed where sixteen-year-old Winifred lives with her dad\, Funeral Songs for Dying Girls follows a teen whose attempt to save her father'\;s job leads to a fake ghost rumor&mdash\;and accidentally summons a very real\, opinionated spirit named Phil. Through this eerie yet heartwarming story\, Dimaline crafts a haunting masterpiece about grief\, survival\, identity\, and unexpected connections across the boundary of life and death.
\nBeyond her graveyard-set YA novel\, we will explore Dimaline&rsquo\;s expansive literary career&mdash\;from the groundbreaking dystopian survival narrative of The Marrow Thieves and its sequel Hunting by Stars\, to the dark\, magic-infused folklore of her adult novels like Empire of Wild and VenCo.
\nSponsored by the Friends of the Oil City Library &\; the Friends of the Franklin Public Library.
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\n LOCATION:Virtual UID:e.2675.28940 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260911T134800Z URL:https://www.franklinareachamber.org/events/details/author-talks-28940 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR