Cato Fortin signs a daring first novel where the freedom of speech is not an open door to darkness, but an opportunity to enjoy, dance and embrace a burlesque and crazy universe. A short read from which you will certainly come out disheveled.
The proposal is first of all a story of filiation, a genre fully exploited in contemporary literature. But we quickly understand that this story is different, subversive. On the death of her grandmother Thérèse, Jeanne, the narrator, discovers a naughty and provocative tattoo on her grandmother’s right buttock. A drawing that contrasts with what she knows of her, despite their close proximity. While emptying Thérèse’s house, Jeanne discovers the parallel life that her grandmother had been leading since her husband’s death. First confronted with her own prejudices about the sexual life of seniors, she will embrace Thérèse’s cause, a new mission that will culminate in an absolutely delicious action scene where Jeanne will have to escape from a CHSLD after having sown the tenderness (and mayhem!) by handing out sex toys.
At the same time, she will have to overcome other bereavements, that of an unborn child and a lover weary of his suffering. To heal her wounds, she can count on her friends and friends, then on a whole group of women who will take part in her revolution.
Rightly qualified by the author, who is a doctoral candidate in literary studies at UQAM and co-founder of the movement
