Suzanne
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 Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to piece together Suzanne's life. This is a fictionalized account of Suzanne's life over eighty-five years, from Montreal to New York to Brussels, from lover to lover, through an abortion, alcoholism, Buddhism, and an asylum. 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. And it's a granddaughter's search for a past for herself, for understanding and forgiveness.
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- ISBN: 9781552453476
- Physical Description 261 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition First English edition.
- Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2017.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Translation of: La femme qui fuit. Montréal : Marchand de Feuilles, 2015. |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
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