“Fracture”, Johanne Seymour | Le Devoir

Cases of violence and sexual assault against minors regularly make headlines, but unfortunately, nothing seems to change. So what can be done? Johanne Seymour has chosen to denounce the unacceptable by proposing a novel that features three young boys who are victims of their coach baseball. We later find them married and fathers… but still torn by shame and guilt. All three — a mechanic, a teacher and an entrepreneur — see their existence called into question at a time when they experience, each to varying degrees, episodes of depression and addiction. This is because a police investigation, conducted after the death of the attacker during a fatal accident, will brutally bring back their past, further exacerbating the slippery slope on which the three men are engaged. A story told in an initially effective writing style carried by characters as torn as they are powerless for whom even hope seems inaccessible.

Fracture

★★★

Johanne Seymour, Libre Expression, Montreal, 2024, 306 pages

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