I attended the Eden Mills Writers’ Festival March Book Club event, In the Upper Country, featuring author Kai Thomas in conversation with host Bee Quammie.

“Ottawa-born Kai Thomas has built a cerebral puzzle box of a Gothic-tinged historical novel; it reimagines (and repopulates) rural Victorian Ontario while also meditating on family, community, indigeneity, history and Canada’s roles in the slave trade.” —Brett Josef Grubisic

“The fates of two unforgettable women—one just beginning a journey of reckoning and self-discovery and the other completing her life’s last vital act—intertwine in this sweeping, deeply researched debut set in the Black communities of Ontario that were the last stop on the Underground Railroad.”