In the second volume of Michel Tremblay's Notebook trilogy, Celine describes her work as hostess of the Le Boudoir, a bordello featuring a staff of drag queens. The book focuses on two days during the Quebec World's Fair in 1967, a key day in the development of Le Boudoir's business and a birthday celebration at the Expo. As in the first volume, the book features the unique viewpoints of Celine, a little person who's escaped her abusive family to live among the drag queens and prostitutes working and living near the Boulevard Ste. Laurent. As she becomes more confident in her writing skills, she experiments with style, interlacing the story with flashbacks to the key characters' pasts and doing some passages in the third person. The character delineation is particularly fine, and the book is filled with little surprises as Celine navigates her new life. If you're keeping tabs, the Duchesse de Langeais from the Chroniques du Plateau Mont-Royal has a larger role, and his niece, Therese, also appears.