A band of larger-than-life renegades escape from the Concessions, where they work at a lackluster industrial reforestation outfit that feeds extractive capitalism. Leading forward this raging convoy of desperados is la Mélisse, a grimmy, charismatic, explosive, tormented woman who won’t stop at nothing to get their message across. Setting fire to a non country filled with smug suburbanites, crooked bosses and “yellow-bellied sheeps” satisfied with their lot in life becomes the only way of life.

From injustice to revolt, brutality to insurrection, order to chaos: one after the other, the characters threaten fire and brimstone until it turns against them—and neither time nor place has much of a say in the matter.

At 37, the protagonist comes to terms with the fact that she will probably never have children. Is it a personal choice or a reality imposed upon her? What about the women for whom not having children is not a decision or a resolution, but rather an unplanned outcome of their journey?

A clear-eyed meditation on a delicate subject: the idea that motherhood may not be in the cards you were dealt.

This spring Thalie is authorized to accompany her mother up North, to the Planters’ Camp. Far from the asphalt of her childhood, she will learn Sandrine’s secrets, the abuses she suffered, and why she’s so angry with society. She’ll also get to know the forest and its inhabitants, as well as what we owe it.

A remarkable hopepunk, eco-feminist fiction about kinship, sisterhood, filiation and humans’ debt to nature.

The narrator of Gimme Shelter, returns as a love story gradually develops between her and Raphaëlle, a rebel wildlife ranger. In this ecofeminist thriller, the lens is now turned to excessive hunting practices and the fast-fashion market.

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After And The Birds Rained Down, a stunning meditation on aging and freedom, Jocelyne Saucier is back with her unique outlook on self-determination in this unsettling story about a woman’s disappearance.

Gladys is born aboard a train as it winds its way through northern Ontario’s most remote regions. On these same rails, she spends rapturous years in the company of her siblings and the other children she meets at each stop. On these rails, she finds love. 

“Once you’ve known happiness, it’s impossible to believe you’ll never know it again.”

But what prompted this ardent optimist, now in the winter of her life, to jump from train to train and evade all attempts to bring her home? The question haunts her friends, as well as a railroad activist who will not be deterred. Someone, somewhere, must know what drove Gladys to leave Swastika far behind.

July 29, 1916. In the woods of Northern Ontario, the flames are rising. Many decades later, a photographer takes interest in the survivors of those Great Fires. She will come to know some of them, venerable old hermits living deep in the woods, still prizing their freedom.