The life of Lucie Lachapelle, through love, through friendship, through her children, and also through her work is, she writes, “linked to the indigenous world for nearly fifty years”. She was 18 years old when she went to Nunavik for the first time and, since then, she has had many encounters, memories, discoveries and resentment of injustices. Fragments of life, personal and intimate stories, Eyes wide open testify to his “certainty that reciprocity is possible, beyond the invisible borders that society has erected between us”. With exemplary frankness and humanism, she invites us into her arms, without seeking to magnify her experience. The writing, woven with humble restraint, however lacks bite, thus attenuating the spectacularity of certain situations that we would have liked to feel more. But the whole is equal, entirely dedicated to the love of others, to the tenderness of looks, to the beauty of the horizon and the resinous scents of the conifers.
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