THURSDAY 29 FEBRUARY 2024 | OLD MUSEUM - BOWEN HILLS
Venue opens 5.30pm
5.30pm doors for a 6.30pm start | 60mins
Join us for a conversation between Kristina Olsson and Carly-Jay Metcalfe about her book Breath
ABOUT THE BOOK
I am dying. I know that I’m dying, despite not having been told by my doctors that I am dying. I know I am dying because I’m in the dying room.
Carly-Jay Metcalfe was born with cystic fibrosis, survived a double-lung transplant at the age of twenty-one and faced a rare cancer at the age of thirty. What she has endured should have killed her, but her humour, courage and optimism became her best survival skills.
From her hospitalised childhood to her many friendships, loves and losses, Carly-Jay shares the fickle nature of life with candour and warmth. She writes with compelling insight about organ donation, opioid addiction and survivor's guilt, while still managing to find joy amongst the wreckage.
Breath is a stunningly frank and darkly funny memoir about living, dying and trying to breathe.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Carly-Jay Metcalfe is a Queensland-based writer. Her work has been published in Kill Your Darlings, The Guardian and TEXT Journal. She is a passionate advocate for organ donation and for more honest conversations around dying and death.
