Event Phone: 204-987-8850

Canadian author and winner of several awards, including the Amazon First Novel Award, McNally Robinson Book of the Year, and the Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, Michael Kaan is joining us to speak about his book, The Water Beetles. This is an engrossing story of adventure and survival in 1941 Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Inspired by the diaries of his father, this mesmerizing story captures the horror of war through the eyes of a child with unsettling and unerring grace.