Having left Montreal to return to her native Saguenay, more precisely to the family chalet abandoned since the death of her father when she was 11, Sarah, 35, discovers in contact with the inhabitants of the small bay of Cascouia painful secrets about his past. “I always relived the same scene: my father, dead, sank to the bottom of the bay. » First novel by Mélanie Minier, Cascouia is an introspective tale of mourning and redemption written with sensitivity, where the author dares to rely on a fierce narrator with rough outlines who dwells on her misfortunes, her failures and her bad choices. Characters as pleasant as they are intrusive and an autistic boy will bring her out of her shell. While she depicts with small touches the majesty of the landscapes, in contact with which the heroine reclaims her roots, the native of Jonquière connects the lively dialogues by happily recreating expressions and turns of phrase typically Saguenéennes.
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