Truth Lives in Language

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How can literature resist silencing and repression in an increasingly chaotic world? Join award-winning novelist Kim Echlin discussing her new essay collection, Tell Others: Storytelling for a World in Turmoil. Drawing from her global lived experiences—including teaching in post-revolutionary China and researching war crimes in the former Yugoslavia—Echlin examines how storytelling turns outrage into understanding and how truth and imagination measure our lives against darkness. Kim Echlin is the award-winning author of Speak, Silence, the winner of the Toronto Book Award. Her novel The Disappeared won the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Award and was shortlisted for the Giller. Kim serves on the board of PEN International and lives in Toronto.