Edmonton writer Marina Endicott will read from her work Friday, April 20, at the Sunshine Coast Arts Centre in Sechelt.
Endicott's latest novel, The Little Shadows (2011), tells the story of the opening of the Canadian West through the performing lives of three young vaudevillian sisters. As with her previous novel, Good to a Fault (2008), Endicott also explores large issues such as the meaning of art, sisterly and familial love and the irrevocable changes to people's lives brought by the First World War.
Born in Golden, B.C., Endicott grew up in Nova Scotia and Toronto, then worked as a theatre actor, director and dramaturge before turning to fiction writing. Her love of the theatre world fuels The Little Shadows.
Endicott says the novel was inspired while doing research for quite another project in the archives of Calgary's Glenbow Museum.
The Little Shadows was long-listed for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, a finalist for the Governor General's Award and one of the Globe & Mail 100 Best Books of 2011.
Endicott's first novel, Open Arms, was nominated for the Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award in 2002, and her long poem, The Policeman's Wife, Some Letters, about the murders of four Mounties in Mayerthorpe in 2005, was short-listed for the national CBC Literary Awards in 2006. Her second novel, Good to a Fault, won the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Canada/Caribbean region, was a finalist for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was one of the featured books for CBC Radio's Canada Reads in 2010.
Her reading takes place at 8 p.m. in the Doris Crowston Gallery at the Arts Centre. Admission is free, thanks to the sponsorship of the Canada Council for the Arts.
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