In the midst of a freezing winter marked by pandemic fatigue and social division, comes A little all crookeda romantic “novella” of just 80 pages that has the sweet effect of a good old hug after two years of physical distance.
Posted yesterday at 12:00 p.m.
First novel by Mélina Proulx, a funny and colorful pen that comes to light at the age of 22, A little all crooked tells a love story (yes, another one!) stamped with a well-balanced candor and anchored in its time (relation without label, attempt at free love, kombucha in Mason jars). However, it is not online that the narrator goes to force the meeting with her “poet”, but at the local café, book by Nelly Arcan and cup of homemade coffee in hand (“C’est pas que j was cheap, but it was not the day to pay five piasses for a coffee that I was going to drink half by telling myself that the one I had at home was better”).
They will learn that they are neighbors and, with wine from the convenience store, trips to the museum and nights, entwined, will begin to weave the webs of a somewhat crooked relationship between two beings “not made to be in a relationship”. , but “made to be together”.
Here is a short and light story, certainly, which is swallowed up for the time of a coffee, but whose well-measured candor can be savored like a small glass of rosé.
A little all crooked
Melina Proulx
Quebec America
80 pages