The narrator of this Governor General's Award-winning novel does not have a name. She is simply a grotesque "fat woman," getting larger every day--a clown, a monster, in her own words, with no self, no identity save her enormous mound of flesh, its blubber, its perceived deformity. She is used by me[...]
In the seemingly endless small-town summer of 1968, a twelve-year-old girl contemplates with dread the social prospects of her fast-approaching enrollment in a class for gifted students at the local high school, arranged by her mother who "blows up" at the drop of a hat--she doesn't intend to let he[...]
I en sjö i Quebec flyter fåglar fulla med hagelammunition. En gammal man sorterar foton och tänker tillbaka på sin ungdoms by. En sommargäst observerar hänfört älgjaktens intåg i byn. Vem sköt gubben Lefebvre? En kvinna ger sig iväg, som så många andra före henne, en kvinna stannar kv[...]