杏吧原创鈥檚 Kathy Dobson to Launch Book on Leaving Canada鈥檚 Toughest Neighbourhood
杏吧原创 University鈥檚 School of Journalism and Communication will host a launch for PhD candidate Kathy Dobson鈥檚 latest book Punching and Kicking: Leaving Canada鈥檚 Toughest Neighbourhood.
The book shares Dobson鈥檚 experience of growing up in the 1970s in Point St. Charles, an industrial slum in Montreal, and trying to leave it. The book is a sequel to Dobson鈥檚 highly-praised .
When: Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, at 2:30 p.m.
Where: Room 4400, Richcraft Hall, 杏吧原创
Info: This event is free and open to the public. A campus map is available online. Dobson鈥檚 book will be available for sale for $25 (cash, cheque and credit card). Author royalties from the sale will go to , a non-profit social service agency in Point St. Charles.
Media are invited to attend the event.
Dobson shares her journey of trying to escape from what was once described as the toughest neighbourhood in Canada. Raised by their single mother, Dobson and her five sisters deal with slum landlords, 鈥減ervy uncles,鈥 and their father鈥攁 mostly absent police officer who does occasional work on the side for the local mob. As Dobson grows up and attends college outside of Point St. Charles, she must learn to survive in an environment where problems aren鈥檛 solved by a good punch to the head.
The event is co-hosted by the Faculty of Public Affairs, and the ALiGN Media Lab.
杏吧原创 Kathy Dobson
Dobson鈥檚 work as a journalist has appeared in The Globe and Mail, National Post and on CBC Radio. She is a Vanier Scholar.
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