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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, General fiction
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Laissé à lui-même par sa mère partie avec quelqu'un d'autre et son père toujours absent, Sam avance dans sa vie…
comme un somnambule. Sur le point de terminer son secondaire, il peine à rester éveillé à l'école, où il ne se rend que pour la forme et pour rassurer son meilleur ami, Munger, et Mia, sa blonde, de qui il s'éloigne petit à petit
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fictionPoetry
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Noémie Pomerleau-Cloutier signe ici une première œuvre pour la jeunesse dans laquelle elle effectue une plongée tout en douceur et…
en sensibilité dans un cerveau atypique et flamboyant. Alternant entre joie et tristesse, entre colère et douceur, entre acceptation et indignation face à un diagnostic qui vient mettre des mots parfois tranchants sur la réalité, le protagoniste de Tête boule disco traverse la vie à sa manière, sans s'excuser. Le recueil se déploie comme autant de miroirs pour nous faire voir l'intérieur des choses, la lumière surtout, celle qui jaillit parfois alors qu'on ne s'y attend pas
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General fiction, Serious and literary fiction, Indigenous peoples fiction
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From the author of the nationally bestselling Strangers saga comes a heartrending story of two Michif sisters who must face…
their past trauma when their mother is called out for false claims to Indigenous identity.June and her sister, lyn, are NDNs—real ones.Lyn has her pottery artwork, her precocious kid, Willow, and the uncertain terrain of her midlife to keep her mind, heart and hands busy. June, a Métis Studies professor, yearns to uproot from Vancouver and move. With her loving partner, Sigh, and their faithful pup, June decides to buy a house in the last place on earth she imagined she’d end up: back home in Winnipeg with her family.But then into lyn and June’s busy lives a bomb drops: their estranged and very white mother, Renee, is called out as a "pretendian." Under the name (get this) Raven Bearclaw, Renee had topped the charts in the Canadian art world for winning awards and recognition for her Indigenous-style work.The news is quickly picked up by the media and sparks an enraged online backlash. As the sisters are pulled into the painful tangle of lies their mother has told and the hurt she has caused, searing memories from their unresolved childhood trauma, which still manages to spill into their well curated adult worlds, come rippling to the surface.In prose so powerful it could strike a match, real ones is written with the same signature wit and heart on display in The Break, The Strangers and The Circle. An energetic, probing and ultimately hopeful story, real ones pays homage to the long-fought, hard-won battles of Michif (Métis) people to regain ownership of their identity and the right to say who is and isn’t Métis.
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Historical fiction
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Rym vit la tendre enfance avec ses cousines en Algérie. Exilées au Québec après la guerre civile, elles grandissent à…
l'ombre de quatre générations marquées par la colonisation, la résistance et le déracinement. Rym raconte l'épopée familiale comme elle a appris à faire le thé : sans jamais laver la théière, en déposant le poids de l'histoire
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Friendship stories, General fiction, Indigenous peoples fiction
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"Part coming-of-age novel, part searing examination of a community finding itself, Small Ceremonies is a tantalizing and heartbreaking debut. 'I…
fear for our friendship, for the day it will end, wondering when that day will be . . .' Tomahawk Shields (a.k.a. Tommy) and Clinton Whiteway are on the cusp of adulthood, imagining a future rife with possibility and greatness. The two friends play for their high school’s poor-performing hockey team, the Tigers, who learn at the start of the new season that the league wants them out. Their annual goal is now more important than ever: to win their first game in years and break the curse. As we follow these two Indigenous boys over the course of a year, we are given a panoptic view of Tommy and Clinton’s Winnipeg, where a university student with grand ambitions chooses to bottle her anger when confronted with numerous micro- (and not so micro-) aggressions; an ex-convict must choose between protecting or exploiting his younger brother as he’s dragged deeper into the city’s criminal underbelly; a lonely rink attendant is haunted by the memory of a past lover and contemplates rekindling this old flame; and an aspiring journalist does everything she can to uncover why the league is threatening to remove the Tigers. These are a sampling of the chorus of voices that depicts a community filled with individuals searching for purpose, leading them all to one fateful and tragic night. Ferociously piercing the heart of an Indigenous city, Kyle Edwards's sparkling debut is a heartbreaking yet humour-flecked portrayal of navigating identity and place, trauma and recovery, and growing up in a land that doesn't love you."--Front flap of jacket
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Suspense and thrillers, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Une femme s'installe dans un pays nordique, d'où ses ancêtres ont été chassés, afin de s'occuper de son frère récemment…
divorcé et de sa maison. Autour de ce vaste manoir, la campagne est le théâtre d'événements inexplicables affectant les animaux de ferme. Misant sur sa dévotion et sur son obéissance pour se faire accepter des villageois, la jeune femme découvre bientôt que ses gestes ont l'effet inverse. Tandis que la suspicion dont elle fait l'objet se transforme en hostilité, l'héroïne de ce roman déroutant et hypnotique est plongée dans des rapports de force où pouvoir, soumission, histoire et violence s'opposent
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Une histoire silencieuse est l'aboutissement d'un attentif travail de mémoire au plus près des surgissements fantomatiques du passé, et la…
silhouette de Thérèse apparaît progressivement parmi les mots et les souvenirs, dans la scansion des voix et la blancheur des images