National Post best books of the year
“Larsen’s memoir is a mesmerizing story of an often-forgotten part of history.” National Post – The NP99: The best books of the year, vol. 4 (24–2) – December 8 2016
RED STAR TATTOO: My Life as A Girl Revolutionary (Penguin Random House Canada 2016) | Winner of the 2017 Edna Staebler Creative Non-Fiction Award | Shortlisted for the 2016 Hilary Weston Writer’s Trust Prize for Non-Fiction | CBC / Now Magazine & National Post Best of 2016
“Larsen’s memoir is a mesmerizing story of an often-forgotten part of history.” National Post – The NP99: The best books of the year, vol. 4 (24–2) – December 8 2016
“Raised in a hippie commune, a teen winds up in a revolutionary collective in Brooklyn where the charismatic leader’s sexual abuse doesn’t reduce her revolutionary fervour. Sounds like some wild […]
Why you should read Sonja Larsen’s Red Star Tattoo CBC The Next Chapter
Celebrating the best in Canadian non-fiction, the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize finalists have been revealed. How many have you read? Click #linkinprofile to shop. #IndigoBooks #WestonPrize #CanLit #Books A […]
Fall Thoughts It’s cliché but the September light just gets me every time. And this feeling of renewal. Fresh pencils, fresh pages. The metaphoric made real. I often dreaded school […]
How author Sonja Larsen turned her scars into tattoos
The organization I belonged to during my teenage years had many names and many faces and continues to operate thirty years later. In Redding California, the public face of the organization was […]
Interview with Sheryl MacKay
First there was the silence, The years and years of silence. Then slowly there were a few stories. I let it slip that my entire alternative school use to go skinny dipping together. That I used to be some kind of radical. That I was writing a book. Then finally there was the book. Red Star Tattoo. And now, as though to make up for those years of silence there are so many conversations. Conversations about secrets and story telling, revolution and resilience, getting through and moving on.
Thank you to all my sweet friends who have sent me photos of the book out in the world! Here are a few although I think there are still a few […]