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Multiple June Award winner and Order of Canada Officer Susan Aglukark is coming to Sarnia to talk about her new memoir.
Published Aug 28, 2025 • 2 minute read
Susan Aglukark is visiting Sarnia Sept. 8 to talk about her book Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing. (Contributed photo)Article content
Multiple June Award winner and Order of Canada Officer Susan Aglukark is coming to Sarnia to talk about her new memoir.
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The O Siem Inuk singer-songwriter born in Manitoba and raised in Nunavut, and who toured Canada earlier this year for the 30th anniversary of her album This Child, is speaking at the Sarnia Library Theatre Sept. 8 about her book Kihiani: A Memoir of Healing.
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“We’ve had many Indigenous authors over the years, but I think she might be our first Inuk author,” said Susan Chamberlain, with event host The Book Keeper, an independent book store in Sarnia.
Aglukark, an advocate for Indigenous youth and founder of the Arctic Rose Foundation, is expected to speak, answer questions and sign copies at the 7 p.m., $10 ticketed event, Chamberlain said.
Tickets are available from The Book Keeper, she said.
The memoir, which goes on sale Sept. 2, is Aglukark’s first book, she said.
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“So, this is definitely the first time we’ve had any interaction with her,” Chamberlain said.
“I’m looking forward to it,” she said, calling the event an opportunity to hear another point of view and build empathy.
Hosting author talks and book signings has become normal practice for the 45-year-old book store, she said, noting events with authors Margaret Atwood, Mitch Albom and Chris Hadfield have been held during the years.
“The reputation of the store locally and in the book world has really grown,” she said.
Bestselling Canadian author Terry Fallis will be visiting Oct. 8, speaking starting at 7 p.m. at the Northgate Plaza store and signing books, she said.
Tickets are $35 and include a copy of Fallis’ new book, The Marionette.
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The “funny and smart” writer has visited Sarnia once or twice before, Chamberlain said.
“So, we’re happy to have him coming back.”
There’s space for about 100 people at in-store events, she said.
“We push all the furniture, all the book shelves to the edges . . . It makes it really nice and intimate,” she said.
Hadfield, meanwhile, also is speaking at a Book Keeper event Oct. 25, but hosted at the Great Lakes secondary school auditorium.
Hadfield, who’s promoting his novel Final Orbit, the third book in his Apollo Murders trilogy, will be interviewed on stage by Northern Collegiate graduate and recent Schulich leader scholarship recipient Liam Henderson, Chamberlain said.
“Every time we’ve had Chris, which is almost every book . . . it’s just him sitting down and signing hundreds and hundreds of copies, because demand is so huge,” she said.
“And I thought it would be really nice to have him in conversation on stage, because he’s such a wonderful speaker.”
A friend suggested Henderson, Chamberlain asked and he agreed, Chamberlain said.
Tickets for the 1:30 p.m. Hadfield event are $45 and include a copy of Final Orbit.
Author talks and book signings tend to run about two hours, Chamberlain said.
“If people can’t make it, we can always get books signed for them,” she said.
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