Thursday, April 26, 7 pm
Toronto book lovers. Please come and meet Erna when she interviews author Dr. Gary Geddes at the Toronto Reference Library, Beeton Auditorium
Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa, by Gary Geddes
Drink the Bitter Root is a provocative, emotionally charged account of one writer’s travels in sub-Saharan Africa. Haunted by the 1993 murder of a Somali teenager by Canadian soldiers in what became known as the Somalia affair, and long fascinated by the “dark continent,” Geddes decides at age 68 to make the trip.
