Here is a voice that will have to be watched at all costs, that of Marie-Sarah Bouchard, who signs a more than promising first book. Written in fragments, with a nimble handwriting coupled with a keen sense of observation, of equal quality, the 12 short stories that make up No need to say goodbye stage characters, men or women, young or less young, endearing or not, whose common point is that of fleeing. Who a romantic relationship for another, who his true nature, who his responsibilities as a father, who a job for which we have given too much of ourselves, who a friendship condemned to wither… “A strange peace, like a resignation, wins little by little its driver. He will think of them, sometimes, often. Sometimes carefully thought out, sometimes spontaneous, these flight impulses, abandonments or moments of cowardice acutely illustrate our own doubts, weaknesses, lies and contradictions, while highlighting our instinct for survival, our lucidity, our humanity.
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