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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Just in case you are looking for more reasons to come to the Reading Series tomorrow -- Mariam Pirbhai's book has been ranked #6 in CBC's Top 95 Must Read recommended
books of 2017!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">And it was also given special mention on the Roger's Writer's Trust must reads of 2017. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hope to see you there!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Tristanne Connolly
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<b>Sent:</b> January-09-18 11:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'sjucas-winter@lists.uwaterloo.ca'; 'sjufaculty@lists.uwaterloo.ca'; 'sjustaff@lists.uwaterloo.ca'; 'englfac@watarts.uwaterloo.ca'; 'englstaff@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca'; 'englsess@watarts.uwaterloo.ca'; 'englaffil@watarts.uwaterloo.ca'; 'englfac2@watarts.uwaterloo.ca';
Katherine Bergman; Scott Kline; 'artsannounce@artsservices.uwaterloo.ca'; 'sjucas-fall@lists.uwaterloo.ca'; 'sjucas-spring@lists.uwaterloo.ca'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Mariam Pirbhai reads at St Jerome's Fri 12 Jan 4:30<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We're delighted to announce the first Winter term reading in our Languages of Home series.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please join us for a reading by Mariam Pirbhai on Friday 12 January at 4:30pm in SJ1 3027.</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The readings are free and all are welcome. Please spread the word!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Mariam Pirbhai is the author of a debut short story collection titled
<i>Outside People and Other Stories</i> (Inanna 2017), praised by award-winning novelist Shani Mootoo for its “clear-eyed compassion, generosity and literary brilliance.” Her short fiction has also appeared in numerous anthologies and literary journals, including
<i>Her Mother’s Ashes: South Asian Women Writers in Canada and the United States</i>,
<i>Pakistani Creative Writing in English</i>, <i>jaggerylit</i> and the <i>Dalhousie Review</i>. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, and the President of CACLALS (the Canadian Association
for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies), Canada’s leading literary association devoted to postcolonial studies and global Anglophone literatures. She lives and works in Waterloo, Ontario.
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<i>Outside People and Other Stories</i> (Inanna 2017) is Waterloo-based author Mariam Pirbhai’s debut collection of short fiction, featuring the stories of the most “invisible” segments among Canada’s “visible minority,” as they navigate the Canadian or trans-national
workforce against the backdrop of contemporary forces and debates, including equal employment opportunities, temporary migrant work, the transnational family, Islamophobia and forms of precarious citizenship.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please visit The Reading Series at St Jerome's at <a href="http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="color:#1155CC">http://canlitkicksass.blogspot.ca</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Tristanne Connolly and Veronica Austen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">St Jerome's University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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