Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 BMO Winterset AwardShortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for FictionA remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikelies...

On June 6, 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour. In between treatments, between hospital stays and her "room of her own," she wrote Testament, an autofictional novel in which she imagines her death and at the same time, bequeaths to her friends and family both the fragmented story of her last year and the stories of the loved ones who keep her memory alive, in language as raw and flamboyant as she was.In the teasing and passionate voice of a twenty-three-...

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator's open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.

Inspired by Erik Satie's work of the same name, Sports and Pastimes is the latest novel by acclaimed Montreal playwright and author Jean-Philippe Baril Guérard.Translated by Aimee Wall (whose translation of Vickie Gendreau's Testament for BookThug in 2016 drew critical reviews), this fast-paced story follows the daily life, at once empty and overloaded, of a group of friends who spend all their energy trying to distract themselves with huge hits of endorphins, art ...

At the book fair in Rimouski, a woman picked up my first book to read the back cover. She put it back down, avoiding my eyes. It's heavy, cancer and death and all that. I wish books were more interactive. Like video game controllers. They could vibrate at the end of each chapter. But that's not how life works. I wonder what death is like. Do you vibrate? Do the words GAME OVER appear?In 2012, Vickie Gendreau was diagnosed with a brain tumour and wrote a book narrating her ...

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life. REVIEWS “a maelstrom of situations and emotions … heartbreaking.” (James Fisher, The Miramichi Reader) EXERPT "Our story was fallin...

Shortlisted for the 2022 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardLonglisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 BMO Winterset AwardShortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book PrizeShortlisted for the 2022 ReLit Award for FictionA remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikelies...

Winter blankets Montreal, while a bookseller and her lover dream of Prague. As the narrator’s open marriage becomes the subject of a novel, reality blurs with fiction, and she tries to reconcile the need to create with the desire for love and sex. Written in stark, spare prose, Prague is an introspective and intimate account of the making of a novel from life.