I will be presenting The Road to Appledore on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025 at 2 pm as part of the annual Cherie Smith Jewish Book Festival at Vancouver’s Jewish Community Centre, 950 West 41st Ave. I’ll be in a session also featuring Detroit attorney Eli Greenbaum’s new Hell, No, We Didn’t Go! Firsthand Accounts of Vietnam War Protest and Resistance, from the University Press of Kansas.

The next day at 6 pm, I’m moderating a festival session spotlighting new novels from two writers I know.

Vancouver’s David Spaner will be talking about his Keefer Street, a look at 1930s life in a then-Jewish neighborhood in Vancouver and the beliefs that led young men and women from that milieu to enlist to battle fascism during the Spanish Civil War, starting in 1936. And Saskatchewan’s Dave Margoshes will speak about his A Simple Carpenter described by his publisher as “part biblical fable, part magic realism, and part thriller.” The book follows a stranded ship’s carpenter, who has acquired the ability to understand all languages, as he journeys through Lebanon and Palestine.

This year’s offering is the festival’s 40th.

For more information on the event, visit: https://jccgv.com/jewish-book-festival/