Windsor author Gary May will be holding a book reading and signing event at Daisy & Co. Wine Bar in Harrow on Saturday, March 28. The event is open to the public.

Known for his acclaimed biographies and award-winning histories, May turns to fiction in Unburdening, a historical novel about a man’s journey home that becomes a reckoning with history, inheritance, and the weight of memory.

In 1975, James O’Malley, a journalist-turned-college professor, returns to his family’s Ontario apple farm after a sudden family death.

As he confronts the silence surrounding the tragedy, he is drawn into deeper currents of his family’s past and the unsettling realization of how little he truly understands those he loves.

Spanning the generations, from the O’Malley family’s flight from Ireland in the mid-nineteenth century, to the upheavals that shaped modern Canada, Unburdening traces the enduring ties between identity and place, and the quiet burdens passed from one generation to the next.

Gary May is an award-winning writer, historian, and editor. A former journalist with the Ottawa Citizen and the London Free Press, he is the author of several works of history, including these local-based books: the rumrunner-era Two Men and Their Monster and Southern Exposure: How Pelee Island Winery Brought Winemaking Back to Its Birthplace .

More recently he published Crude Genius: The Making of an International Oil Baron.

Gary May lives in Windsor, Ontario.

Unburdening is published by Mosaic Press.

Event Details:

Gary will read passages from his new novel and talk about how the book came to be.  Books will be available for $25 (cash or e-transfer only)

Date and Time:
Saturday, March 28, 3:00pm to 4:30pm

Location:
Daisy & Co. Wine Bar, 41 King Street West, Harrow

~ Image: Gary May