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The Free Press Book Club and McNally Robinson Booksellers are pleased to welcome Winnipeg author Nora Decter to the next virtual meeting on Tuesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. to read from and discuss her debut adult novel What’s Not Mine.
Published in April 2024 by ECW Press, What’s Not Mine is told from the perspective of Bria Powers, a soon-to-be 16-year-old with more life experience than someone twice her age.
After her stepmother overdoses on fentanyl, the drug of choice in her small town of Beauchamp, and her father disappears, Bria goes to live with her aunt Tash and cousin (and best friend) Ains, as well as Ains’ two younger siblings.
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Nora Decter
The girls spend their summer tending to the children, selling burgers at the local fast-food place and, in Bria’s case, entering into a drug-addled relationship with an older man she dubs “Someboy” that results in her, too, relying on fentanyl just to get through the day.
What’s Not Mine deftly explores all types of relationships — platonic, familial, romantic — through the eyes of someone who carries an extraordinary amount of trauma. Though Bria’s decisions and actions often feel erratic, the character herself exudes a calmness among the chaos which makes it easy to root for her as she figures things out.
Decter’s young adult novel How Far We Go and How Fast won her the 2019 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in literary fiction. In September, she was named the 2024-25 writer in residence for the Winnipeg Public Library.
Decter will be join by Free Press columnist Jen Zoratti, Chris Hall of McNally Robinson Booksellers and Free Press audience engagement manager Erin Lebar. Decter will read from What’s Not Mine, discuss the book and field questions from viewers and readers.
Copies of What’s Not Mine are available to purchase at McNally Robinson Booksellers; there is no cost to join the book club or virtual discussion. Video of the meeting will be available for replay on the Free Press’s YouTube channel following the event.
What’s Not Mine
To join and for more information on current and future book picks, visit wfp.to/bookclub.
