Dec
17
5:00pm
Jordan Tannahill: The Listeners
By TPLCulture
Jordan Tannahill, one of Canada’s most renowned artists, joins us to talk about his latest novel, The Listeners, a literary page-turner about a family torn apart by a mother’s obsession with a sound that no one else can hear. While lying in bed next to her husband one night, Claire Devon suddenly hears a low hum, a sound which no one else in the house can hear. When she discovers that one of her students can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from their families and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group of people who also perceive the sound. What starts out as a kind of neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something much more extreme, with far-reaching, devastating consequences. A compelling and exhilarating tale, The Listeners forces us to consider how strongly we hold on to what we perceive, and the way different views can tear a family apart.
Jordan Tannahill talks with Tamara Faith Berger (Queen Solomon) about The Listeners, an electrifying novel that treads the thresholds of faith, conspiracy and mania.
About this event’s guests:
Jordan Tannahill
Tamara Faith Berger
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Author photo courtesy of Caio Sanfelice.
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