Koffler Centre of the Arts

The Koffler's Books & Ideas Series presents the launch of Madhur Anand’s memoir, in conversation with Ali Kazimi.

The launch of Canadian poet and Professor of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Madhur Anand’s experimental memoir, This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart: A Memoir in Halves, which traces the author’s family’s immigration and settlement in Canada, following the upheaval of the 1947 Partition of India and Pakistan into separate states. In this unique genre-bending work, Anand weaves together the poetry of memory with the science of embodied trauma to illuminate how the pasts we carry cast a shadow on our current lives.

ABOUT BOOKS & IDEAS Koffler Centre of the Arts’ Books & Ideas series spotlights provocative writers, artists and thinkers, celebrating literary excellence and fostering critical dialogue through compelling book launches, author talks and on-stage interviews. With a thematic focus on counter-narratives, the series features books that employ fiction, memoir, and photography as tools of resistance.