Antanas Sileika on being a literary hero in Lithuania

Growing up in the Toronto suburb of Weston, Antanas eschewed his Lithuanian heritage and called himself Tony - he tells the story of saying hello to his immigrant roots in his new memoir “The Death of Tony: On Belonging in Two Worlds”

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