Join us for the Calgary launch of She's a Lamb by Meredith Hambrock. Meredith will be joined in conversation by Mikka Jacobsen.
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ABOUT SHE'S A LAMB
Jessamyn St. Germain is meant to be a star. Not an actor who occasionally books yogurt commercials and certainly not a lowly usher at one of Vancouver’s smallest regional theaters. No, she is bound for greatness, and that’s why the part of Maria in the theater’s upcoming production of The Sound of Music is hers. Or it’s going to be.
Jessamyn may have been relegated to the position of childminder for the little brats playing the von Trapp children, but it’s so obvious she’s there for a different reason — the director wants her close to the role so when Samantha, the lead, inevitably fails, Jessamyn will be there to take her place in the spotlight.
This must be it. Because if it isn’t, well, then every skipped meal, every brutal rehearsal, every inch won against a man attempting to drag her down will have all been for nothing.
Sharp, relentless, and darkly funny, She’s a Lamb! is a cutting satire about the grotesque pall patriarchy casts over one woman’s delusional quest to achieve her dreams and the depths she will sink to for a chance at the life she’s convinced she deserves.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Meredith Hambrock’s debut novel Other People’s Secrets was called “audacious” and “fabulous” by the New York Times. She has been a finalist for the CBC Short Story Prize and worked extensively in television, most recently in the writers’ room for the Canadian Screen Award–winning sitcom Corner Gas Animated. She lives in Saskatoon.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Mikka Jacobsen is the author of the story collection Good Victory (Freehand Books, 2025), and the essay collection Modern Fables (Freehand Books, 2022), which won the Alberta Book Publishing Award for Non-Fiction. Her work has appeared in PRISM, Joyland, The Fiddlehead, The Missouri Review, and Lit Hub, among others. She lives in Calgary, AB, on Treaty 7 territory.
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