Home(sick) with Victoria McNulty & Selali Fiamanya
27 Apr 2025 - 17:30
Home(sick) with Victoria McNulty & Selali Fiamanya
For the final event
in our Life’s Fundamentals strand, we look at the theme of Home and Belonging
with two Glasgow writers who know a thing or two about finding your place.
Former Paisley Book Festival writer in residence, Victoria McNulty, returns
with Parables, a meditation on homesickness following a journey she took
through Ireland to explore her own family’s history. Also known in Celtic
languages as Cianalas or Hiraeth (in Gaelic and Welsh), homesickness is shown
in Victoria’s work to be a multi-faceted process which is as much about self
as it is about place. Glasgow-based doctor turned writer Selali Fiamanya’s
powerful debut novel, Before We Hit the Ground, is an astounding testimony to
the idea that finding yourself is intrinsically linked to where you are. It
is told through the eyes of a young man struggling to reconcile his queer
identity whilst navigating his mixed cultural heritage between Glasgow and
Accra in Ghana.
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