There are 70 million primary-school-aged children who are too poor to afford an education. What would it be like to experience life from this vantage point? Ever wonder what it must feel like to be so disadvantaged?

In partnership with the Amarok Society (Canadian Compassion in Action Abroad) Ten Thousand Villages' West Broadway location presents a unique opportunity to meet author G.E.M. Munro on Friday September 4th.

Book signing will be from 6:30 to 7:30 and the reading / discussion will be from 7:30 to around 8:00.

Take a rare journey into the real slums of South East Asia in a book of short stories written in the words of the the the active poor.