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Writer picks e-reading over tour

Motion sickness keeps her from going on the road

Last Updated: Friday, October 30, 2009 | 3:02 PM ET

The Canadian Press

Canadian author Lori Lansens recently lamented that chronic motion sickness has prevented her from touring to promote her new novel The Wife's Tale.

Author Lori Lansesns, who suffers chronic motion sickness, will do an online reading of her new novel, The Wife's Tale, rather than go on the road. (CBC)

But on Nov. 3, fans can see the Chatham, Ont.-born author, who nows lives in California, do a live reading online.

The video-streaming event, which will also feature Lansens taking questions from readers, will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. ET at http://www.booklounge.ca/liveevent.

Released last month, The Wife's Tale is the story of a morbidly obese Ontario woman whose husband suddenly leaves her.

Lansens also wrote The Girls, a novel about conjoined twins which shot to international prominence after it was featured on a British talk show, and Rush Home Road, which is set in southwestern Ontario.

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