February 24th, 6pm at Public Kitchen

Connie Gault will join us to discuss her most recent novel, The Rasmussen Papers’.

The Ramussen Papers’ unnamed narrator is so obsessed with the desire to write the biography of her literary hero, the late poet Marianne Rasmussen, that she assumes a false name and talks her way into the house of Rasmussen’s former lover, Aubrey Ash. The Rasmussen Papers is a brilliant reply to Henry James’ The Aspern Papers. Connie Gault flips James’ story on its head and slides it into contemporary Toronto’s Cabbagetown, among the marginalized and dispossessed, people the narrator studies as intently as she studies everyone she meets—until she is forced to reconsider the limits of what you can know of another’s story, and how hidden we all are, especially from ourselves.