Fiction. It is October, 1980, the 10th anniversary of the October Crisis. In a bathtub in a rooming house near the city's heart, Montréal's "Main," a woman is trying to negotiate her personal passage from Quebec's politically turbulent 70s to the threatening bleakness of the 80s. She is negotiating other passages too: from a passionate "open" love affair with a male left leader, and from deep involvement in far left politics, to a new way of life and living whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it.
"Nothing I've read since satisfies my desire for density and beauty."—Erin Mouré
Author City: MONTREAL, QC CAN
Gail Scott is the author of essays, manifestos, short stories, and novels. Her books include THE OBITUARY, My Paris, HEROINE, and SPARE PARTS PLUS TWO. She teaches at the Université de Montréal.
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