Maritime Launch Dates
Events in Halifax, Moncton, Woodstock, and Fredericton
Hi, It’s Me will hit shelves in less than a month! Thank you so much to all who have pre-ordered. If you haven’t and you’d like an early copy, it is available directly from the Penguin Random House Canada website. If you would still like a copy but prefer to shop in-store, you should be able to find it on or after the 17th of September.
The Winnipeg Free Press and the CBC have both included the novel on their fall to-read lists! Advance copies have been mailed out, and there are some interviews and reviews to come for anyone interested in reading more about the novel or the story of how it came to be. I am immensely grateful for this advance praise written by Zoe Whittall, Claudia Dey, and Casey Plett—three writers I’ve long admired:
"Exacting, prismatic, and brilliantly unafraid, Hi, It’s Me holds something of the soul in its pages. Mourning the death of her mother, Fawn Parker takes us into the hot and psychedelic center of her grief. Searching for clarity, for nearness, Parker must contend not only with the size of her unanswered love and wanting, but with how scarcely she knew her mother, and how scarcely she herself was known. Never sentimental, always true, Parker closes the distance between the reader and the word. A beautifully immersive and haunting novel produced by a sublime and original mind, Hi, It’s Me is a direct conversation with an everlasting absence, with the afterlife itself." —Claudia Dey, author of Daughter
"This book accomplishes something truly rare: After you've read it, you feel like you've spent time with a real person. It's a devastating book on absence and grief, it's a deeply complicated and felt story about womanhood, it's so completely uninterested in bullshit. Fawn Parker is one of the smartest, most talented writers working right now. We're lucky she's around." —Casey Plett, author of A Dream of a Woman
“Fawn Parker writes beautiful prose, with wit, clarity, and precision. Hi, It's Me packs so much into one single day, and leaves you with a lot to ponder about what makes a life.” —Zoe Whittall, author of Wild Failure
The first stops on the Hi, It’s Me book tour will be in Halifax, Moncton, Woodstock, and Fredericton! I’ll be sharing these dates with David Huebert, launching his new novel Oil People. In Fredericton we’ll be joined by our good friend Matthew Gwathmey, launching his collection Family Band.
Halifax—September 19th at 7pm at Trident Books (1256 Hollis Street) with David Huebert
Moncton—September 20th at 5pm at The Laundromat (1703 Main Street)
Woodstock—September 21st at 2pm at the Woodstock Public Library (445 Hunter Street) with David Huebert
Fredericton—September 21st at 7pm Gallery 78 (796 Queen Street) with David Huebert and Matthew Gwathmey
If you’re in the Maritimes, I hope to see you at one of these events! I’ll be making it out to Charlottetown after I’ve gone west for a couple weeks, so more on that soon as well.
To close, here is a photo from a hike in Kingussie, Scotland on a recent trip I took with Kieran. Enough said!