It’s a touching first novel – about love, friendship, loss. A new feather that we discover with enthusiasm, through the story of three young adults in their twenties who are probably living the most intense moments of their lives.
We meet Alex a month after Sam’s death. Sam, the great love of her life, the one with whom she skipped every step of the way she loved him so much. A love that was too brief, but of rare power. The story sails, in disorder, at different times of the three years they spent together – Sam’s friend, Jean-Thomas, still hanging around.
From the cataclysm to their meeting, from their move to their passionate three-way discussions, it is a fusional friendship and unfailing love that are revealed, but also the impossibility of mourning for Alex and Jean-Thomas, who are trying to to find the way to recovery together.
They isolate themselves, find each other, then never leave each other, unable to obtain the slightest comfort anywhere other than themselves, disappointed by the reaction of their loved ones, aware of their selfishness in mourning and unable to imagine continuing their relationship. life without the one they loved so much, each in their own way.
And it is all the sincerity of this simple writing, without artifice and spontaneous that makes one immediately become attached to the characters and that one ends up feeling all that they feel fivefold.
Author Marianne Brisebois will participate in the round table Between fiction and reality: the story of the coming of age, November 25 at the Montreal Book Fair (4:30 p.m. to 5:15 p.m., at the Espace Savoir Média). His signing sessions are scheduled for November 25 and 28.
Except Sam is dead
Marianne Brisebois
Hurtubise
520 pages