"There's this way that film is always external. You're always looking at an actor playing a character and thinking, 'Wow, maybe I'm getting drawn into them. I'm so invested in their story that I'm moved by them.' But you remain you and they remain them. Whereas you can kind of embody a character in a book." — Eleanor Catton

Booker Prize winning author Eleanor Catton appeared at Toronto Reference Library's Appel Salon to discuss her new novel, Birnam Wood, with Claire Cameron on March 6, 2023.