Fiction
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FictionSeptember 2016Autour d'elle
by Sophie Bienvenu
In 1996, a sixteen-year-old teenager gives birth in secret to a boy in a Montreal hospital. Autour d’elle recounts twenty years in the lives of Florence Gaudreault and her biological son through the eyes of characters who have crossed their paths in one way or another and who are now telling their own version of the story. This polyphonic novel surveys the depths of the human heart and explores love in all its forms, be it lost love, all-powerful love, destructive love or rediscovered love.
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FictionOctober 2014Chercher Sam
by Sophie Bienvenu
Mathieu lives on the streets. Sam, his dog, helps him keep his head above water. But something is killing him – something other than the cold or the indifference of people around him. Something that’s impairing his ability to breathe. When Sam disappears in the streets of Montreal, Mathieu goes looking for her and, unwillingly, opens the door to his inner demons. Chercher Sam is about survivors. With broken and tender words, Sophie Bienvenu opens and reassembles memories like she would a delicate set of Russian dolls, uncovering, in its core, the smallest glimmer of hope.
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FictionOctober 2015Les maisons
by Fanny Britt
Tessa is a thirty-seven-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores herhusband and three young sons, but she’s deeply unhappy and questioning the setof choices that have led to her present life. After a surprising run-in with Francis,her ex-boyfriend and first love, Tessa arranges to see him. As the day of her meetingwith Francis draws closer, she must decide if she’s willing to disrupt her stable, lovingfamily life for an uncertain future with him. With startling clarity and emotional force, Fanny Britt gives us a complex portrait ofa woman and a marriage from the inside out.
