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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother’s mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included painter Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to piece together Suzanne’s life.
Nominated for 2019’s Canada Reads, Suzanne was the winner of the Prix des libraires du Québec and a bestseller in French. It takes readers through the Great Depression, Québec’s Quiet Revolution, women’s liberation, and the American civil rights movement, offering a portrait of a volatile, fascinating woman on the margins of history.
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Rights Held: World English
Author Biography
ANAÏS BARBEAU-LAVALETTE is a Montreal-based novelist, screenwriter, and director. She was named 2012 Artist for Peace by the social justice organization Les Artistes Pour la Paix.
RHONDA MULLINS is a writer and translator. She received the 2015 Governor General's Literary Award for Twenty-One Cardinals, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier's Les héritiers de la mine. And the Birds Rained Down, her translation of Jocelyne Saucier’s Il pleuvait des oiseaux, was a CBC Canada Reads Selection. It was also shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award, as were her translations of Élise Turcotte’s Guyana and Hervé Fischer’s The Decline of the Hollywood Empire. Rhonda currently lives in Montréal.
Bibliographic Information
- Publisher Coach House Books
- Publication Date April 2017
- Orginal LanguageFrench
- ISBN/Identifier 9781552453476
- Publication Country or regionCanada
- FormatPaperback
- Primary Price 20.95 CAD
- Pages264
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions8.5 by 8.5 inches
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