Ungar will be reading excerpts from his novel and all proceeds will be donated to Phoenix House.  Phoenix is a non-profit community based organization in Halifax that offers help to homeless and at risk youth and works to address issues that lead to youth homelessness like poverty, housing, discrimination and literacy.

Come out to support a good cause and treat yourself to a new book.

Quill & Quire provided a brief article on the book, mentioning that Lesley Choyce (author and publisher) plans to hand-deliver copies of the forward-thinking enterprise to politicians across the province. We think this is a great idea! Though we couldn’t help but notice that ex-Premier Rodney MacDonald is on the list of contributors. Something tells me his vision of the future didn’t include a humiliating defeat and third party status for the Progressive Conservatives in the election last week. Of course, the writers were only asked to describe what they thought Nova Scotia would be like in ten to one thousand years, so what can we really expect?

Whether these writers see a utopia of clean energy, better healthcare and efficient politics or a dystopia of polluted harbours and minority governments, let’s all hope that this book garners more serious attention from our politicians than Yann Martel’s correspondences with Stephen Harper’s communications staff.