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The twelve months of Mary
The twelve months of Mary
Marie-Chantal Perron
Hands free
“I know Marie-Chantal and right from the start, I’m like, ‘Wow, she’s really, really sincere.’ She is very lucid about her person, her character, her personality. I was the mother-in-law of a little boy for seven years and, when I read the book, it was as if it came to legitimize my feeling of pain, the mourning that I had [quand je me suis séparée]. It’s really beautiful, what she wrote, it resonates in the hearts of many women who have been mothers-in-law. I had the impression, through her book, of living my own mourning for being a mother-in-law. And it’s very, very well written. »
The cigar at the edge of the lips
The cigar at the edge of the lips
Akim Gagnon
The Wick
“We are here in a completely trashy register. Quebec Bukowski. He gets drunk, he tears himself apart… This guy was a director and he did the 100 shots; but at some point, it tired him so much that he decided to start writing. Her book is irresistible. It took me back to the time when, when I arrived in Montreal, I was 21 years old and I lived in a roommate with four people. At that age, we are always in bars, we do drugs, we drink, we go far with our body to feel alive. […] There is something very liberating that at the same time evokes great distress. And the mix of all that is very beautiful. »
I will go and dig up my father
I will go and dig up my father
Catherine Larochelle
Quebec America
“I’m in the early stages of this book because I just received it. It’s written more like a dialogue, a bit closer to a play – and Catherine comes from a theater background. There is discussion more than prose. I really like this way of writing and it’s sure that it joins me because it’s a girl who is my age. It is his first novel. She had a child and it brings her back to her youth. I like to dive into this book. It’s autofiction and it reveals itself in a very sincere way. »