Margaret Gallagher

Live at the Commodore chronicles 84 years at Vancouver’s celebrated art deco dance palace.

Weddings are typically all about the couple — the dress, the dance, the vows, the honeymoon and their plans for the future. And while Gurjinder Basran's latest offering, The Wedding, examines the romance, it also hones in on the other people who are inherently involved when two people come together in matrimony. 

The emergency room doctor often incorporates current events into his writing — things like the opioid crisis, anti-vaxxers and diet pills — but Daniel Kalla said this book is a little different than his others.