A novel of criminal intrigue, eccentric love and the power of women.After a twenty-year absence, Guy Vidoq is returning home to meet his daughter for the first time. He discovers his mercurial daughter, Isabelle, has been raised in a bizzarre, cloistered environment by her libertine mother, Martine, who is now living with a young man, Harry, roughly the age of their daughter. If the intense, closed and sensual relationship of these three housemates wasn't bad enough, Guy soon discov...

Dans ce premier roman, Natalee Caple s'empare de la légende de Calamity Jane. Abandonnée très jeune, sa fille décide de partir sur les traces de l'héroïne qui lui a donné la vie et reste pour elle une fascinante inconnue. Mais l'auteur a été encore plus loin, en recréant la voix de Calamity Jane elle-même. Derrière le mythe, on découvre le portrait émouvant d'une femme qui voulait avoir un destin extraordinaire dans un monde âpre dominé par les hommes. Ce texte est à la fois un hymne à l'a...

Miette has no desire to meet the mother who discarded her, a woman she knows only as an infamous soldier, drinker, and exhibition shooter: Martha Canary, made notorious as Calamity Jane. But Miette's beloved adoptive father makes a deathbed request that the two be reunited: “You have to do it . . . Promise me you will not change your mind. I know that you've heard sickening things and those things are all true but I'm sure she wants to know you.”Keen to honor her father's wishes, M...

How I Came to Haunt My Parents is storytelling for parents on the verge of a nervous breakdown. In this beautifully written suite of short fiction Natalee Caple explores fables from the dark side of adulthood and imagines what moral Aesop may have offered to a mother who gave birth to a murderous dictator. Caple’s animals and humans are imbued with modern complexity as they confront sex, death, and history, but her stories are as witty as they are profoundly lucid.How I Ca...

Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future of collective struggle in Canada.Harriet’s Legacies recuperates the significance of Tubman’s time in Canada as more than just an interlude in her American narrative: it is a new point from which to think about Black diaspor...