On her way home from school, a few weeks before Christmas, a young girl’s world implodes. At the age of nine, she learns that her father has taken his own life.
Faced with the denial and silence of those around her, the child, now a teenager, barricades herself behind a wall of indifference. She tries to soothe the gaping hole left in her by this disappearance through writing, the forest and a reckless attitude.
Véronique D’Anjou’s raw and incisive style lifts the veil on the taboo words and evils surrounding suicide. Mixing narration and poetic prose, she recounts the explosion and the shockwave, the stupor and the sadness, the anger and the revolt, the solitude and the Nordicness.
When our path seems doomed to a dead end, what about hope and reconstruction?
From 14 years old
Preliminary List – 2025 Quebec Booksellers Youth Award (category 12-17 years old)
Finalist – 2024 Cécile-Gagnon Award
