LA FILLE DE LA FAMILLE

“A wonderful storyteller who has the art of drawing you into the twists and turns of life, of holding you back by making you follow all the small steps and hesitations of her characters.” Littérature du Québec

What is this country, where they squirt Flytox on children before a walk in the woods? Where entire families take valium the night before a wedding? Where only fathers, not mothers, can register a birth with the state? Where a woman needs her husband's permission to take out a bank loan? Where boys are kings and brothers walk on the other side of the street rather than be seen with their sisters? Where a dispensation from the bishop is required before one can teach Madame Bovary? With irony, power and rhythm, and just the right amount of historical detail, Louise Desjardins tells the story of a fighter.

Louise Desjardins is a novelist and a poet. She won the Grand Prix du Journal de Montréal and the Prix des Arcades de Bologne for her first novel, La Love (1993). La Fille de la famille is her 6th novel and is a critical and public success of the rentrée litteraire 2020.

“A writing performance that is very, very subtle. Louise Desjardins at her best in this book.” Novelist Jocelyne Saucier (Il pleuvait des oiseaux)
“A little literary gem.” Les libraires
“A beautiful portrait of women from the 1960s to 1970s.” Le Téléjournal
“We close the novel half-amused, half-rebellious, but above all filled with great affection for the narrator who managed to free herself along the way. We would like to know the rest of his adventures.” La Presse
“It's quite delicious as a novel. We surrender because it looks like life.” Radio-Canada
“Like so many women who have carried Quebec on their shoulders, the character of the Suffragette will for a long time place the needs of all the others ahead of her own. At the risk of getting lost.” Le Devoir
“It's really fascinating. It shows us with very effective, very simple writing that things are changing.” Radio-Canada