An Evening with Nicholas Herring, Hosted by David Bergen

 

Join us for a special in-conversation event with Nicholas Herring, author of Some Hellish (Goose Lane Editions), the winner of this year’s Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. This event will feature a reading and a conversation hosted by David Bergen, followed by a book signing. Co-presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers.

The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream with live chat. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events at the store.

Herring is a hapless lobster fisher lost in an unexceptional life, bored of thinking the same old thoughts. One December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life.

During the spring lobster season, Herring and Gerry find themselves caught in a storm front. Herring falls overboard miles from the harbour, is lost at sea for days, and assumed to be drowned. And then, he is found, miraculously, alive. Having come so near to death, he is forced to confront the things he fears the most: love, friendship, belief, and himself.

Some Hellish is a story about anguish and salvation, the quiet grace and patience of transformation, the powers of addiction and fear, the plausibility of forgiveness, and the immense capacity of friendship and of love.

Nicholas Herring is a writer and carpenter living in Murray Harbour, PEI. His debut novel, Some Hellish, won the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.

Praised by the Montreal Gazette as “one of Canada’s best writers” and by the Globe and Mail as “inventive and electrifying,” David Bergen is the bestselling author of ten novels and two collections of short stories. In book after book, he has harnessed the written word to illuminate the human condition.