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Books/authors from PQ

Anything by Lauren B Davis but particularly her short story collections Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives (isn't that a great title?), and An Unrehearsed Desire.

Anything by my favorite Francophone writers Gaétan Soucy, Jocelyne Saucier, Michel Tremblay and Kim Thúy.

Montrealers Mordecai Richler, Heather O'Neill and Trevor Ferguson AKA John Farrow.

Mavis Gallant's short stories are wonderful too, but dated to an earlier era of the 40s in Montreal.

Kim Thuy is coming to Hamilton and is an author that would be interesting to meet!!

Susan wrote: "Kim Thuy is coming to Hamilton and is an author that would be interesting to meet!!"

You will LOVE her. She is so bubbly and so funny and loves to talk. Don't miss it.

Susan wrote: "good to hear... it is a noon hour presentation so I have been debating whether I can manage to get there or not. I will try and get there with this recommendation!"

I hope you can make it. Let us know if you do. And what is with these daytime affairs??? Trevor Ferguson (AKA John Farrow) is giving a talk near me, but it's from 9am til noon. I have to work :-(

Just finished Lullabies for Little Criminals today which was not only written by an author from Montreal but was set in this city.
@Louise - have you met this author?

The book was very well written from the perspective of a 12-13 year old girls but very sad. It may have been more difficult to read since this is the age of my own daughter and I cannot imagine her having to deal with what the main character, Baby, grew up with and was involved with.

Yes she came to our book club a few weeks ago and did say that Lullabies was semi-autobiographical. Her father was an ex-con. I loved that book but yes sad indeed.

@Louise - did you see that there is an additional pre-chapter/short-story based on Jules and Manon called "And They Danced by the Light of the Moon" which give additional perspective on Baby's parents? It had been published in the Walrus at some point.

Susan wrote: "@Louise - did you see that there is an additional pre-chapter/short-story based on Jules and Manon called "And They Danced by the Light of the Moon" which give additional perspective on Baby's pare..."

That's funny. I have it on my ereader but haven't read it yet and didn't even know what it was about.

I went to see Trevor Ferguson AKA John Farrow this morning and what a treat it was. He had some really great stories to share. Our bookclub leader was in attendance too and she talked to him about getting him to come to one of our book club meetings! I hope it comes through because he sounded like a man who has a LOT of stories.

Lise Dion's The Secret of the Blue Trunk is a fascinating true story of the Quebecois comedienne's mother's experience in WWII as a nun in Europe.

Morcecai Richler of course!

Chez l'arabe: Stories by Mireille Silcoff is a collection I enjoyed a lot, set mostly in Montreal.

Emmkay wrote: "Chez l'arabe: Stories by Mireille Silcoff is a collection I enjoyed a lot, set mostly in Montreal."

This sounds fantastic. I had never even heard of her. I checked with all my libraries and no one has it (in ebook format) so I asked the Montreal library to bring it in for me.

Here are some suggestions for Quebec: http://montrealgazette.com/entertainm...