Familiendinge - Lesungen, Gespräch und Musik mit Lisa Roy, John von Düffel und Eckhard Wiemann

In the organizer's words:

The authors Lisa Roy and John von Düffel read and talk about family matters and generational issues. Eckhard Wiemann will accompany the event with improvisations on the piano.
The novels of the two writers, who are separated in age by around a generation, are linked by family gaps: The missing mother and the dead father respectively set the plots in motion. In her debut "No Good Story", Lisa Roy creates a powerful portrait of families, origins and the invisible threads that shape our lives. The first-person narrator Arielle returns to her hometown to look after her grandmother and set off in search of her mother, who disappeared without a trace 24 years ago. Lisa Roy has found a rough, Ruhrpott-typical tone for her gruff heroine and her bizarre adventures. John von Düffel's "Der brennende See" (The Burning Lake) is a novel
about the coexistence of generations. Hannah, the daughter of a writer, returns to the town of her childhood after the death of her father. She finds a photo of a stranger in the deceased's apartment. In the shimmering heat of another record-breaking dry April, Hannah sets off in search of clues with this picture.

In cooperation with the literature and music festival 'Wege durch das Land', the Cultural Office
of the city of Paderborn and the Deelenhaus Paderborn.