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For those of you who haven’t seen it, here’s the cover of “Don’t Be Afraid.” As is always the case, there were various versions that got sent my way to look at before we arrived at this. The background image is of a charred library card–this is a novel about a library that explodes, killing the brother of the main character, Jim Morrison. Not that Jim Morrison, not the lead singer of the Doors. Here is how he introduces himself on the first page of the novel: “This is what I tell people: I’m Jim Morrison, from Cleveland Heights Ohio. It’s a sort of joke. A way of saying you’re no one at all.”
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Watch the Giller Appeal…
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Great Review in The Globe and Mail of Don’t be Afraid. Read it now, right here.
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Here’s Canada’s National Post on Don’t be Afraid. It’s a thumbs up!
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For those of you living in the States, too eager to wait for the American edition,here’s the link to Amazon.ca where you can have it sent to you.
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Meet Jim Morrison–not the lead singer of the Doors who died a rock ‘n’ roll death in 1971, but a chubby seventeen-year-old living in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, born days after the singer’s death. Jim, or Jimmy, as most people call him, has been living a largely invisible life, overshadowed by his older brother, Mike, popular and charismatic, and his father, Fort, a stern and unyielding engineer. But everything changes the night the local public library explodes, with pieces of books and catalogue cards falling like snow from the dark sky. Jimmy is first on the scene with his father and it’s soon clear that Mike had been in the library when it exploded. Mike’s death upends the Morrisons’ suburban life and any sense of normalcy is destroyed. Their mother, Filomena, is nearly catatonic with shock, and Jimmy must become his much younger brother’s nanny, taking him to preschool every day and uncomfortably hanging out with a gang of mothers, watching them breastfeed and talking about peanut allergies. The cause of the library explosion remains mysterious, and Jimmy tries to help his father unofficially gather evidence at the site. Add to this his duties surrounding his mother’s idea to have a birthday party for his dead brother, and Jimmy finds himself busier and, bizarrely, happier than he’s ever been.
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Just got my copy of the 2oth Anniversary of Nino Ricci’s classic Lives of the Saints. Beautiful book with illustrations by Tony Urquhart and an introduction by me. Did you know that this is the book that made me want to be a writer? It’s true. Given to me years ago by my grandfather, Costanzo DiFranco, nothing was the same afterwards. The real highlight of the edition is Ricci’s long afterward, which gives us a glimpse of the vast material he excised before publication.
Posted by haywardauthor on Jan 15, 2012 in Blog | 0 comments
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 – 7:00pm at the Dora Keogh on the Danforth, in Toronto. Hosted by The Fine Print, Miriam Toews will join me for an onstage interview about the new book. Would love to see you all there. Everyone is welcome. And everyone is welcome to make the drive to Toronto. It really is a lovely city.
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Hello and welcome to the official Steve Hayward page. Check back here for anything and everything to do with the upcoming release of my new novel Don’t Be Afraid and upcoming readings or reviews.
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Great Review in Toronto’s NOW Magazine…
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