Book Launch of Jan Guenther Braun's "Somewhere Else" @ Collected Works

"Jess is sixteen and aware that she is in an impossible position—being the
homosexual daughter of the president of the Mennonite college. She hits the road in
search of a language and the freedom to speak it. On the train to Winnipeg she is
found by Freya, Icelandic princess of her dreams. Halfsteinn, fisherman and expert
in the fine art of hand-rolling cigarettes, enters Jess' life, helping her escape
emotional captivity. Jess embraces pothead, videogame-playing housemates in the
world away from her Mennonite being. Then, she meets Shea. Jess can barely utter the
name—afraid of the word, the woman, the possibility, and her own past." Jan Guenther Braun, originally from a farm near Osler, Saskatchewan,
now makes her home in Winnipeg where she is 1/6 of a worker co-op
selling organic groceries. She was the Manitoba winner of the 2005 CBC
Poetry Face-Off competition and selected for the Manitoba Writers'
Guild Sheldon Oberman mentorship program. Somewhere Else is her first
novel. http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/somewhereelse
http://www.arbeiterring.com/
http://www.janguentherbraun.ca Collected Works in Ottawa for Thursday, November 27, at 7:30.Toronto  Women's
Bookstore in Toronto for Saturday, November 29, at 7:00. This event will feature
several other glbt authors.The Erb Street Library (131 Erb Street) in Waterloo for
Sunday, November 30, at 4:00.Winnipeg - an evening of literature, music, and poetry
on Wednesday, December 3, at 7:00 at Mondragon, 91 Albert Street.