Additionally, an author reading, interview (with Mark Sakamoto) and audience Q&A event, is happening on September 23rd at Koerner Hall in Toronto.
The event will feature discussions around these crucial topics, marking it as an important gathering for learning about Indigenous perspectives and stories.
Talaga is known for her powerful storytelling. In her latest work she delves into personal and collective histories, offering a narrative that resonates deeply with themes of identity, resilience and cultural legacy.
For those interested in attending, the event will not only highlight Talaga’s literary achievements but also provide an opportunity for deeper engagement with the issues she raises, making it a great choice for anyone passionate about truth, history, and Indigenous narratives. Tickets for the live event can be bought here.
Lastly, The Knowing will be released in a four-part docuseries of the same name. The docuseries is being produces by Talaga’s own production company, Makwa Creative, and will premier at the Toronto International Film Festival starting on Sept. 12.
The Knowing is being published by Harper Collins and is set to be released on August 27th.
For generations, Indigenous People have known that their family members disappeared, many of them after being sent to residential schools, “Indian hospitals” and asylums through a coordinated system designed to destroy who the First Nations, Métis and Inuit people are. This is one of Canada’s greatest open secrets, an unhealed wound that until recently lay hidden by shame and abandonment.
The Knowing is the unfolding of Canadian history unlike anything we have ever read before. Award-winning and bestselling Anishinaabe author Tanya Talaga retells the history of this country as only she can—through an Indigenous lens, beginning with the life of her great-great grandmother Annie Carpenter and her family as they experienced decades of government- and Church-sanctioned enfranchisement and genocide.
Deeply personal and meticulously researched, The Knowing is a seminal unravelling of the centuries-long oppression of Indigenous People that continues to reverberate in these communities today.
An avid book reader and proud library card holder, Angela is new to the world of e-Readers. She has a background in education, emergency response, fitness, loves to be in nature, traveling and exploring. With an honours science degree in anthropology, Angela also studied writing after graduation. She has contributed work to The London Free Press, The Gazette, The Londoner, Best Version Media, Lifeliner, and Citymedia.ca.
