When her grandmother dies, a young woman sets out to deconstruct the mysteries surrounding her origins. From the shores of the St. Lawrence to the island of Gorée, off the coast of Senegal, she retraces the trajectory of her ancestors, with which she interweaves the turning points of History, often forgotten in favor of myths which perpetuate the relations to be able to. We meet Adriana, a Mi’kmaq child adopted by a white family on the death of her parents, a runaway slave in love with books and freedom, and the ghost of a brawling father, immortalized in leather gloves. boxing. In this story that boldly ties together the intimate and the collective, Bianca Joubert chooses to juxtapose her quest for freedom with those of the two peoples on whose backs America was built, recounting the exiles, the tragedies, the lives torn , innocence violated, souls violated in the name of colonialism and white supremacy. The dense and concentric narration of the writer is certainly striking, but sometimes becomes heavy, and struggles to be embodied in a statement that is both ambitious and poetic.
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