“My mother left one night in April when I was seven. […] My mother didn’t die that night, she just left. Poof. […] She wouldn’t come back. » A narrator abandoned by her mother imagines the free, lively and complete existence that the latter has reinvented for herself, probably in Paris. From her departure, she weaves a novel, a destiny which honors the choices of a woman “formerly exhausted”, freed from fear, from the violence of an indifferent husband, from the tears that her daily life tore from her. At the same time, she tells of her father, her brother, her heart forever in tatters, distrustful, her family broken up, scattered to the four corners of the world, like the displaced survivors of a disaster. Sarah Rocheville delivers a strong and dazzling story, which transmits without explaining all the complexity of the suffering of a child deprived of love. By seeking to fill the void, to give substance to immateriality, to the elusive, the writer of Go West, Gloria (Leméac, 2014) explores, in a framework that we would have liked to be less restricted, the heritage and the transfiguring power of fiction.
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