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Readopolis

Readopolis

“I am a reader because I have my own view of literature; what it should be; what buttons to sew on a novel’s sleeves…”

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Stone Blades

Stone Blades

From a small-town childhood to a postwar lumber camp to the throes of the Quiet Revolution, Des lames de pierre keeps returning to one central concern: What does it mean to set words down on paper?

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Grande plaine IV

Grande plaine IV

Think back to a road trip you’ve taken. Grande Plaine IV is a bit like that road trip: funny and sweet, clever and heartfelt. Young.

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Nina

Nina

A straightforward detective story full of great, gritty, and questionable characters quickly spins into a self-reflexive narrative, twisted in on itself.

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Preaching to the Fish

Preaching to the Fish

Le sermon aux poissons is the first book in a Lisbon-based trilogy that loves nothing more than to blur the lines between myth and reality.

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Burqa of Skin

Burqa of Skin

Her sad soul would stay close to Holt Renfrew, maybe even after Holt Renfrew might move, for example, to Toronto, and without Holt Renfrew at any time consenting to open the doors that would lead to her salvation, to her dress.

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Underdog Superhero

Underdog Superhero

Every year the thought of a new Blais keeps us afloat, our heads above water, promising us that, once we’ve finished our homework, we will be free, at last, to go out and play.

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The Multicoloured Album

The Multicoloured Album

When, at the moment of her last rites, the priest asked my great-grandmother if she was afraid of death, she answered, “Death, Father, I have seen it 17 times.”

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An Ideal Sparseness?

An Ideal Sparseness?

Nature has no secret plan. Nature is not a kind organizer. Nature doesn’t give a shit. She does her thing. Drops us through the hole, then waits.

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Troubled Waters

Troubled Waters

Deslauriers’ work often focuses on adolescence, that fragile, fumbling period when “we are tightrope walkers. Anything can tip us over.”