<p><b>Includes Author-Curated Discussion Questions!</b><br/><br/>From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians.</p><p>When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One, an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.</p><p>Timeless and essential, award-winning author Glen Huser’s <i>Burning the Night</i> spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis’s awakening as a gay man.</p><p><b>IncludesAuthor-Curated Discussion Questions!</b><br><br>Fromsmall-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. Therehe forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered afamily pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists andmusicians.</p><p>When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet thediary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One,an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become askillful artist and to find fulfilling love.</p><p>Timeless andessential, award-winning author Glen Huser’s <i>Burning the Night</i>spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver toHalifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis’sawakening as a gay man.</p>