Canada Reads authors on the all-important first sentence

Anita Rau Badami, Lawrence Hill, Tracey Lindberg, Saleema Nawaz, and Michael Winter read their opening lines

Media | Canada Reads 2016 authors dissect their first sentences

Caption: The authors in this year's competition — Anita Rau Badami, Lawrence Hill, Tracey Lindberg, Saleema Nawaz and Michael Winter — read their books' crucial first sentences

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In this video, Canada Reads(external link) 2016's contending authors Anita Rau Badami, Lawrence Hill, Tracey Lindberg, Saleema Nawaz and Michael Winter tell CBC Arts about the crucial opening line of their respective books.
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