Acclaimed local author here for Dawson Reads Sept. 27
Hotline – synopsis
A vivid love letter to the 1980s and one woman鈥檚 struggle to overcome the challenges of immigration.聽It鈥檚 1986, and Muna Heddad is in a bind. She and her son have moved to Montreal, leaving behind a civil war in Lebanon. She had plans to find work as a French teacher, but no one in Quebec trusts her to teach the language.聽 The only work Muna can find is at a weight-loss center as a hotline operator.聽Even as her daily life in Canada is filled with invisible barriers at every turn, at the office Muna is privy to her clients鈥� deepest secrets.
Following international acclaim for聽Niko聽(2011) and聽The Bleeds聽(2018), Dimitri Nasrallah has written a vivid elegy to the 1980s, the years he first moved to Canada, bringing the era鈥檚 systemic challenges into the current moment through this deeply endearing portrait of struggle, perseverance, and bonding.
Dimitri Nasrallah – bio聽
Dimitri Nasrallah is the author of four novels. He was born in Lebanon in 1977, and lived in Kuwait, Greece, and Dubai before moving to Canada. His internationally acclaimed books have garnered nominations for CBC Canada聽Reads, the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, and the Grand Prix du Livre de Montr茅al, and won the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize. He is the fiction editor at V茅hicule Press and teaches at Concordia University.
