Date: Thursday, December 11th, 2025
Time: 2:30 pm AST
Location: Virtual event
Language: Presented in English
Cost: FREE
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In partnership with the Atlantic Jewish Council, join us virtually for a conversation with acclaimed journalist and author, Bonny Reichert about her new book How to Share an Egg.
Through conversation and a live reading, Bonny will share stories from her writing journey, reflect on the themes that shape her work and explore the power of storytelling to connect people and communities. This event will offer attendees the chance to hear directly from Bonny, ask questions and take part in an engaging discussion about creativity and what it means to tell Canadian stories today.
About How to Share an Egg:
Bonny Reichert avoided everything to do with the Holocaust until she found herself, in midlife, suddenly typing those words into an article she was writing. The journalist had grown up hearing stories about her father’s near-starvation and ultimate survival in Auschwitz-Birkenau, but she never imagined she would be able to face this epic legacy head-on. The book is a journey of deep flavors and surprising contrasts. By turns sweet, salty, sour, and bitter, this is one woman’s search to find her voice as a writer, chef, mother, and daughter. Do the tiny dramas of her own life matter in comparison to everything her father has seen and done? This moving exploration of heritage, inheritance, and self-discovery sets out to find the answer.
About Bonny Reichert:
Bonny Reichert is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist. She has been an editor at Today’s Parent and Chatelaine, and a columnist and regular contributor to The Globe and Mail. When she turned forty, she had a now-or-never feeling in her bones and quit her job to enroll in culinary school. After that, she began to explore her relationship with food on the page, seeing her childhood in the restaurant business and her background as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor in a new light. Bonny was born in Edmonton, Alberta, and lives in Toronto with her husband Michael and little dog, Bruno. Her three almost-adult children come and go. She holds a Master of Fine Art in creative nonfiction from the University of King’s College in Halifax and teaches writing at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. In 2020, Bonny was longlisted for the CBC Short Story Prize and in 2022, How to Share an Egg won the Dave Greber social justice writing award for a book-in-progress.
About Canada’s Storytellers:
Canada’s Storytellers is an ongoing series of programs that connects visitors with cultural works, and their creators, to explore themes of immigration, migration, multiculturalism, (in) equality and Canadian identity. Canada’s Storytellers has welcomed renowned authors such as Lawrence Hill, Madeleine Thien, Mark Sakamoto, Blaise Ndala, Kim Thuy; screened films like Kayak to Klemtu, Bagages, I Am Rohingya, and more.