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Title: Explora Books Features Karen East’s Sanctuary - A Novel Exploring Managed Narratives, at London Book Fair

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 25th Feb 2026 - Sanctuary by Karen East is a novel that asks what gets preserved when systems decide what may be remembered—and who is allowed to remember it. Explora Books will be displaying Sanctuary during the London Book Fair, taking place March 10–12, 2026, at Olympia London in Hammersmith, London, UK, where the book stands as a quiet but firm challenge to managed narratives and controlled histories.Rather than rushing its reader through events, Sanctuary takes its time to examine power, memory, and responsibility across generations. The novel moves between two periods: the late 1990s and a near-future United States shaped by surveillance, environmental damage, and enforced compliance. These timelines do not compete with each other. Instead, they speak across distance, showing how choices echo forward and how unfinished work waits for new hands.At the center of the book is a question that feels increasingly current: what happens when truth becomes inconvenient? Karen East frames this through institutions that limit speech, restrict movement, and reduce people to categories based on age or usefulness. The book does not rely on shock or spectacle. Its tension comes from accumulation—from policies quietly accepted, from habits formed under pressure, and from the slow narrowing of what is considered normal.One of the novel’s most striking strengths is its treatment of age. In the society East imagines, growing older is treated as a liability. Against this, Sanctuary places deep value on lived experience. Elders are not background figures; they are keepers of memory and context. What they carry is not nostalgia but record—personal, political, and cultural.The presence of the Anishinaabe community is handled with c...

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