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Autopsy of a Boring Wife
The hysterically funny tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband is having an affair because, he says, she bores him.
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Her translations have also been long-listed for awards such as the International Dublin Literary Award, the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the Giller Prize. as well as appearing on IBBY’s Honor List. She has also published\u003cem\u003e Nathan\u003c\/em\u003e, a novel for young readers, and\u003cem\u003e Damselfish\u003c\/em\u003e, short-listed for the WGA's Georges Bugnet award for fiction. \u003c\/p\u003e\n","ContributorRole_0":"By (author)","ContributorRole_1":"Translated by","Contributor_0":"Jean, Michel (CA)","Contributor_1":"Ouriou, Susan (CA)","Description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist, Governor General's Literary Award in the Translation Category\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLonglist, 2025 Dublin Literary Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Quebec bestseller based on the life of Michel Jean’s great-grandmother that delivers an empathetic portrait of drastic change in an Innu community.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the story of Almanda Siméon, an orphan raised by her aunt and uncle, who falls in love with a young Innu man despite their cultural differences and goes on to share her life with the Pekuakami Innu community. They accept her as one of their own: Almanda learns their language, how to live a nomadic existence, and begins to break down the barriers imposed on Indigenous women. Unfolding over the course of a century, the novel details the end of traditional ways of life for the Innu, as Almanda and her family face the loss of their land and confinement to reserves, and the enduring violence of residential schools. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e intimately expresses the importance of Innu ancestral values and the need for freedom nomadic peoples feel to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781487010911","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781487010911\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"8.5","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"Arachnide Editions","MetaKeywords":"billy ray belcourt;ndn coping mechanisms;the break;katherena vermette;seven fallen feathers;tanya talaga;all our relations;our voice of fire;brandi morin;indigenous literature;canadian literature;creative writing;books in translation","NumberOfPages":"224","OtherText_Back_cover_copy_0":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWinner of the 2020 Prix France-Québec; winner of the 2021 Combat nationale des livres (“Battle of the Books,” the French-language equivalent of Canada Reads); winner of the 2020 VLEEL Award; shortlisted for the 2020 Jacques La Carrière Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e was a bestseller in French-language Canada in 2020 and has sold over 100,000 copies. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor is Innu from Mashteuiatsh. His work has strongly focused on his own family history, as well as supporting other Indigenous writers with the two anthologies he has edited. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnansi is using the beautifully illustrated cover from the Quebec edition, with details used for interior illustrations.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","OtherText_Long_description_1":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003eWinner of the 2020 Prix France-Québec; winner of the 2021 Combat nationale des livres (“Battle of the Books,” the French-language equivalent of Canada Reads); winner of the 2020 VLEEL Award; shortlisted for the 2020 Jacques La Carrière Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eKukum\u003c\/em\u003e was a bestseller in French-language Canada in 2020 and has sold over 100,000 copies. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAuthor is Innu from Mashteuiatsh. 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A work of queer autofiction and a speculative look at our dark future, Valid is the story of a trans woman who leads her own revolution.
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The Hand of Iman
In this award-winning debut novel, dreaming is a luxury that few can afford. And yet, however inadvisedly, Iman dreams.
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A young teacher’s return to her remote Innu community transforms the lives of her students through the redemptive power of art.
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Together by the Sea
In the tenth and final instalment of the legendary Soifs cycle, Marie-Claire Blais invites all the agonies and joys of humanity to a party by the sea.
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Back Roads
A genre-defying ethereal mystery in which a writer encounters her double and must grapple with an undetermined crime — and her own identity.
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Mirror Lake
A brilliant and original tragicomic thriller about one man’s search for peace and sanctuary amid invasive neighbours and a mysterious death.
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The Seated Woman
With flexibility and invisible acrobatics, The Seated Woman presents, as in the theatre, a competitive dialogue between a woman and her poems.
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Trembling River
From internationally acclaimed crime writer Andrée A. Michaud, a beguiling story of trauma and lost innocence.
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A hunger for the hunt took hold of him and held on unrelentingly; come the night, he dreamed of going on safaris in shadowy forests in which he came face to face with herds of deer, moose, or caribou, which he would slaughter in a terrifying burst of gunfire, half blinded by the clouds of acrid smoke that made him cough and laugh at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe dedicated a weekend to courses — “Arms Management” and “An Introduction to Hunting” — in order to get his permit, which he received a month later. Yet, even with it, he felt he needed to have someone experienced with him on his first adult foray into the woods. 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The Accidental Education of Jerome Lupien
Montreal student Jerome is swept up in a series of misadventures and criminal escapades in this portrait of a city infamously mired in corruption.
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A Boring Wife Settles the Score
The saucy and ever-appealing Diane, now turning fifty and with the wreckage of her marriage behind her, sets off on a new hilarious journey for romance.
