Sarah Sasson author talk

Next date: Saturday, 04 May 2024 | 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM

The Friends of Kiama Library are thrilled to invite you to a talk with physician and writer, Sarah Sasson.

Sarah has followed up her ground-breaking collection of memoir and fiction, Signs of Life, with a tender coming-of-age novel about growing up in the face of unimaginable loss.

Tidelines examines the stories we subconsciously write for our ourselves and what remains later, when we have the courage to tear them apart.

Tidelines is 'beautifully conceived and written,' says novelist and creative writing teacher, Debra Adelaide. Sarah's book is 'about the faulty but inescapable ties of family and friendship.'

Please join us for afternoon tea after the talk, when books will be available for purchase and signing.

$8 FOKL members/ $10 guests (includes afternoon tea). Everyone welcome.

Book online or call 02 4233 1133.

Tidelines

It's Sydney in the early 2000s, and Grub is spending the summer with her universally adored older brother, Elijah, and his magnetic but troubled best friend, Zed. Their days are filled with surfing, swimming and hanging out; life couldn't be better.

But years later, Elijah disappears and Grub's family unravels. At first, Grub blames Zed: he was the one who derailed Elijah from a bright future in the arts. But as Grub looks back at those dreamy summer days, the sanctuary of her certainty crumbles. Was Zed really responsible for her brother's disappearance? Was anyone?

Tidelines is a tender coming-of-age novel about growing up in the face of unimaginable loss. It examines the stories we subconsciously write for ourselves, and what remains later, when we have the courage to tear them apart.

Sarah Sasson

Sarah Sasson is a physician-writer living on Gadigal land in Sydney. 

Sarah's poetry, short-fiction and creative non-fiction have been published in Australia, the UK and the USA, in Meanjin, Medium, Oncology Republic, Grieve Anthology, Unsweetened, Intersection Stories and Orris Root, among other places. In 2021 Sarah edited Signs of Life—an anthology (MoshPit Publishing), a collection themed around first- and second-hand experiences of mental and physical illness, and of caregiving. Tidelines was shortlisted for the 2020 Varuna House Publisher Introduction Program and longlisted for the 2020 Queensland Writers' Centre Publishable Program under the title Some Things Beautiful.

Sarah has spent time living overseas in Chicago, Singapore, Montreal, Hanoi and Oxford. Sarah currently works in Sydney as a clinician and scientist, and when she is not writing, she enjoys swimming, bushwalking, travel and spending time with family and friends.

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Kiama Library Auditorium, 7 Railway Parade, Kiama, 2533, View Map