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SUMMARY:Muskoka Authors Association Meeting – Author Katherine Ashenburg Introduces "Margaret’s New Look"
DESCRIPTION:Free for MAA Members and $20 for Non-Members.\nDoors open at 6:30 pm ET. \nJoin Muskoka Authors Association (MAA) and their guest author\, Katherine Ashenburg. At almost eighty years of age\, Ashenburg published her third novel\, Margaret’s New Look. Fashion\, mystery\, and politics combine in this delectable\, pacey novel set in a big-city museum where an ambitious curator is launching a controversial exhibition of Christian Dior’s “New Look.” \nAt work\, Margaret is the well-regarded curator of fashion for a big city museum. At home\, she is the mother of lively\, teenaged twin girls\, the spouse of a successful mystery writer\, and a daughter still grieving the recent death of her beloved father. As she prepares to launch a career-defining exhibition on the haute couture of legendary French designer Dior\, she faces fierce internal politics from her peers alongside unsettling questions from a younger generation. To make matters more worrying\, items in the Dior collection mysteriously begin to disappear. Meanwhile\, Margaret must deal with revelations after her father’s death—secrets that force her to confront her family’s long-suppressed Jewish heritage. Struggles at work and home entwine in the unlikely figure of an elderly collector of couture—one who may have a long-ago connection to Dior himself. With her trademark wit\, keen observation of human foibles\, deep love of textiles and craft\, and ear for spicy dialogue\, Katherine Ashenburg deftly creates a page-turning tale. \nAuthor of several books and many magazine and newspaper articles\, Ashenburg published her first novel at seventy-three! She has written for The New York Times\, The Globe and Mail\, and Toronto Life\, among other publications. Her nonfiction books include The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die and The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History\, which was published in twelve countries and six languages. In former incarnations\, she was a producer at CBC Radio and was The Globe and Mail‘s Arts and Books editor. In 2012\, she won a Gold Medal at the National Magazine Awards for her article on old age. In 2018\, she published her acclaimed debut novel\, Sofie and Cecilia\, and in 2020 she followed that work with the delightfully tart novel Her Turn. She lives in Toronto. \nFor more information and to register\, please email your contact information and etransfer payment to info@muskokaauthors.ca.\nYou can also reach out for more information to David Bruce Patterson at davidbrucepatterson.maa@gmail.com. 
URL:https://canadianauthors.org/national/event/muskoka-authors-association-meeting-author-katherine-ashenburg-introduces-margarets-new-look/
LOCATION:46 Dominion Street\, Bracebridge\, Ontario\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Book Launch,Book signing,Book signing and sales,Meet & Greet,Meeting,Muskoka Authors Event,Presentation,Reading
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