Meet award-winning Ajax author, Rabindranath Maharaj at the launch of his new book, Fatboy Fall Down. Mr. Maharaj will speak about the inspiration behind his novel plus read selections. Autographed copies are available for purchase. 

Author Bio:
Rabindranath Maharaj is the author of seven novels and three short story collections. His fifth novel, The Amazing Absorbing Boy, won both the Toronto Book Award and the Trillium Fiction Prize. In 2013, Maharaj was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. He resides in Ajax, Ontario.
 
Book Description:
A child ridiculed for his weight, a son overshadowed by a favoured brother, a husband who falls short of his wife’s ambitions, an old man with a broken heart… as Orbits’ life passes, he doggedly pursues a simple dream — a little place in the country where a family might thrive — while wondering if he can ever shake free of the tragedies that seem to define him. Fatboy Fall Down is the lush and heartbreaking musings of a man trying to understand his place in the world.

Registration starts March 5th @ 9am. To register, phone 905-683-4000 ext. 8813 or visit the library's website: www.ajaxlibrary.ca/events.