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In our era of #MeToo and fresh attempts to break the gender biased holds on...
A novel first published in French in 1982, Picture Theory demonstrates Nicole Brossard's fiction théorique...
This is an autobiographical novel told in crisp, direct language about growing up and the...
Daniel, a young French-Vietnamese man, lies dying in a Montreal hospital. Spurned by his family...
The golden days of MaryAnne's singing career, of sold-out concert halls and hit records have...
Dix-huit ans, retour dans sa famille, sur la Côte-Nord, le temps des vacances. Entre le...
No Safeguards, the first in a trilogy, follows Jay and his brother Paul from childhood to young adulthood. We witness the destructive impact of fundamentalist Christian beliefs on their mother and father, opposition to those beliefs by the boys' grandmother and each boy's very different response to their parents' religiosity. This becomes even more poignant after they leave their grandmother's comfortable home in St. Vincent to join their mother in Montreal. The revelation that both boys are gay adds to their sense of oppression and divides them from their mother, whose views are shaped by the church and the theology...
"I catch myself biting the nail of my right thumb, a habit Grama had tried in vain to break. I check my cellphone. Nothing. No message from Paul. I stare at Anna's outline in the dim light, at her chest rising and falling and quarrelling with the air it's pulling... "
