Jenny Heijun Wills Book Launch

Sat. Sep. 21 07:00 PM - Sat. Sep. 21 09:00 PM
Location: McNally Robinson, Grant Park in the Atrium and Streaming on YouTube

Join Jenny Heijun Wills for the launch of Everything and Nothing At All: Essays (Knopf Canada). Co-presented by Plume Winnipeg (formerly the Winnipeg International Writers Festival) as part of THIN AIR 2024. Featuring a conversation hosted by Lindsay Wong, followed by a book signing.

The launch will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a YouTube stream.

As a transnational and transracial adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the fraught spaces of ethnicity and belonging. As a pan-polyam individual, she lives between types of family—adopted, biological, chosen—and "community"; heternormativity and queerness; commitment and a constellation of love. And as a parent with a lifelong eating disorder, who self-harms to cope with mental illness, her love language is to feed, but daily she wishes her body would disappear. These facets of Wills' being have served as the anchors she once clung to and the harsh parameters of what others now imagine she can be.

Everything and Nothing At All weaves together a lifetime of literary criticism, cultural study, and a personal history into a staggering tapestry of knowledge. And though the experiences of accumulating this knowledge have often been shot through with pain, Wills spins these threads into priceless gold—a radical, fearless vision of kinship and family.