Esi Edugyan and Omar El Akkad books among this year’s Canada Reads lineup

TORONTO - Books by award-winning authors Esi Edugyan and Omar El Akkad are among the many titles set to be debated on CBC’s “Canada Reads.”

The on-air literary contest returns March 28 with Olympic swimmer Mark Tewksbury championing Edugyan’s “Washington Black” and entrepreneur Tareq Hadhad pushing El Akkad’s “What Unusual Paradise.”

In the meantime, journalist Christian Allaire will advocate for Michelle Good’s “5 Little Indians,” actor Malia Baker is ready to symbolize Catherine Hernandez’s “Scarborough,” and ecologist Suzanne Simard will argue for Clayton Thomas-Müller’s “Life within the Metropolis of Soiled Water.”

Comic Ali Hassan, who stars within the CBC comedy “Run the Burbs” and has hosted “Canada Reads” for the earlier 5 years, will return to reasonable.

Every day of the competitors, one e book can be eradicated till the one which finest defines this 12 months’s theme of “One E-book to Join Us” is asserted.

“Canada Reads” is ready to run March 28 to 31, with the day by day debates broadcast on CBC Radio One, CBC TV and CBC Gem.

“We all know so a lot of our neighbours are feeling remoted this winter, so the second feels proper to discover tales of group,” Hassan stated Wednesday in an announcement.

“This 12 months’s books will remind readers that we’re all linked and that we’re stronger once we come collectively. We will work via laborious issues and discover the hope we have to maintain going.”

This report by The Canadian Press was first printed Jan. 26, 2022.