Mitchell Library
To Absent Friends Week: Rodge Glass- Joshua in the Sky
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- Tickets
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Free - ticket required
- Dates and times
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Tuesday 5th Nov 2024
6:30PM
- Age
- Over 14s only. Under 18s must be accompanied by an adult over 18.
- Venue
To Absent Friends Week
(1st - 7th November) is an annual Scotland-wide festival of
remembrance and story-telling which provides an opportunity to remember, to
tell stories, to celebrate and to reminisce about people we love who have died.
To mark To Absent Friends Week 2024 we welcome Rodge Glass to the Mitchell Library on Tuesday 5th November to discuss his memoir Joshua in the Sky.
Rodge's nephew Joshua died the same day he was born, from a
blood condition they both share. This book charts the five years around
Joshua's life and death to tell the story of Rodge's attempts to make sense of
this loss. Having spent a lifetime using reading and writing to both hide from
and face the world, Joshua in the Sky serves as a kind of
reckoning, asking the questions: whose life deserves to be remembered? And how?
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