Simone Simoneau, volume 2: Like vixens
“I have just finished it and my daughter is reading it too, and I find it extraordinary because it is a model of woman that I want her to see. I’m not very political or attracted to reading with a political flavor, but I was told about it and the illustrations really attracted me. For me, it’s a breath of fresh air, it gave me hope. […] Valérie Plante, with her character Simone Simoneau, transports us into her political universe. We understand all the workings of this system and how it can work in a more masculine world. It caught my attention because in music, it was a bit like that when I started, almost 20 years ago. »
Simone Simoneau, volume 2: Like vixens
X Y Z
104 pages
I will come less often
“ It’s a very beautiful little book. It’s taken from his play, which itself was inspired by a podcast called Someone immortal. I devoured it. She recorded her grandmother, who is 92 years old in the book and is beginning to lose her independence and lose her memory. […] It’s all with gentleness and empathy. She accompanies her grandmother during crucial stages of her life. And she, at the same time, is also experiencing great things. It’s like a dialogue between two generations, two women coming together. It touched me deeply because my grandmother has just moved into residence and when I go to see her, I experience exactly the same things that Camille notes in her book. »
I will come less often
The very moment
72 pages
Rue Duplessis – My little darkness
“ Jean-Philippe is my neighbor, I’ve known him since my first daughter’s kindergarten, so he’s a friend and I was perhaps even more curious to read his book. He talks about his journey as a class defector. He says, at the beginning, that he is as if caught between two chairs: he no longer feels connected to his world, to his family, but at the same time, he is not completely connected to his new reality either. He wanted to do this for his family, but it could speak to a lot of people. I think Quebec is full of these stories. He is very humble, he never has the answer to the question, but he makes us think. And what I like the most is that it is not judgmental. »
Rue Duplessis – My little darkness
Lux
328 pages