PEN Picks: Fiction meets fact as some of PEN Canada’s most celebrated writers—Vincent Lam, Camilla Gibb, Miriam Toews, and Linwood Barclay—present a documentary of their choice. Each author will discuss their personal interest in the film after the screening, and will participate in a Q&A with the audience.
Linwood Barclay is the author of several best-selling thrillers, including the recent A Tap on the Window and Trust Your Eyes, which is in development for a film at Warner Bros. He spent 27 years at the Toronto Star, 14 of them as a columnist, but left the paper in 2008 to write books full-time.
"The boys' struggles to make it on their own, with mixed success, and the resulting banishment from their families is inspiring yet heartbreaking." –
Linwood Barclay on SONS OF PERDITIONSONS OF PERDITION
In the remote desert of Utah hides Colorado City, the oldest polygamist compound in the United States, where men and their plural wives raise children by the strict code of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). In 2003, FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs began a systematic effort to cleanse his flock for the end of the world, exiling hundreds of teenage boys to the streets of neighbouring communities. With unprecedented access, Sons of Perdition takes audiences on a three-year journey into the lives of three remarkable boys fleeing the isolation of Colorado City in hope of escape, providing a critical look at faith, family and religious exile in mainstream America.
Single Ticket: $15 ($12 for Bloor members)