{"id":28734,"date":"2026-11-02T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=28734"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:44:18","slug":"fret-by-professor-nadia-bozak","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/event\/fret-by-professor-nadia-bozak\/","title":{"rendered":"Fret by Professor Nadia Bozak, a Reading and Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n            <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                                                        <\/div>\n        \n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join us in celebrating Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/bozak-nadia\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/bozak-nadia\/\">Nadia Bozak<\/a>\u2019s new novel <em>Fret <\/em>and hear her in conversation with English PhD student <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/emily-franzo\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/emily-franzo\/\">Emily Franzo<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once a rising star of indie rock, Kate is now a middle-aged single mom living far out of the spotlight. Everything changes for her when an unprecedented heat wave and a stolen car set off a chain of events that threaten to upend her new, peaceful life. Fired from her job, separated from her children, and overwhelmed by public shaming, Kate must navigate the cold realities of the child welfare and family court systems while struggling to stay cool in an increasingly unbearable world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Determined to rebuild, Kate finds herself forging new connections and fostering a sense of community \u2014 something she hasn\u2019t felt since her music career ended in disaster more than a decade before. As Kate finds a new voice, she makes her way back to her children and her love of music, and steps closer to reconciling with her former bandmate and arch-rival: her little sister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If building community is Kate\u2019s way of reckoning with the mistakes of her past, can it also be a way to mitigate the deeper, more urgent issues and structural injustices that threaten our future?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":386,"featured_media":28740,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[79],"cu_event_audience":[],"class_list":["post-28734","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_event_type-creative-writing"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2026-11-20 15:00:00","cu_event_end_date":"2026-11-20 16:30:00","cu_event_add_to_calendar":"show","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_building":"DT","cu_event_meeting_room":"Gordon Wood Lounge (DT 1811)","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_post_thumbnail":"","cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"","cu_event_email":"","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/28734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/386"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/28734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28742,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/28734\/revisions\/28742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=28734"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=28734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}