Feminist Book Club: June 2026
For June’s 📚💖Feminist Book Club💖📚, we’re reading The Snag: A Mother, A Forest, and Wild Grief, by Tessa McWatt.
We selected this one as it was the overall winner of the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. A Guyanese-born Canadian writer and professor, Tessa McWatt is the author of seven novels and two books for young people.
From the publisher:
As her mother’s dementia advances and she can no longer live independently, Tessa McWatt confronts personal and political losses, and finds herself wandering in a forest asking, how do we grieve? And what can we learn from nature and those whose communities are rooted in nature about not only how to grieve but also how to live?
From the newest seedling to the oldest snag in the forest, there is meaning to be found in every stage of a tree’s life, all of which contribute to a thriving forest community. In this forest thinking, Tessa begins to find answers to her questions about how to live (for each other), how to grieve (radically), and how to die (with love and connection).
🗓 Wednesday, June 17
🕕 6pm
📍Poinciana Paper Press, 12 Parkgate Road.
“Investigating the question of how we grieve, McWatt adeptly connects the personal and the political, the local and the global. In doing so, she illustrates how they are inextricably linked. . . . Her prose enacts her thematic interest in interdependence. . . . A heartfelt affirmation of the potential of storytelling to make connections and imagine better futures.” —The Conversation
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