The story of a daughter’s fighting love for her mother.
Somewhere on an island that isn’t an island, a woman possesses all the gifts without knowing it, because no one has told her: silence, flexibility, memories, and above all, love. One day, her long-awaited daughter is born. The child learns to read the world and outwit fate in this impossible land, where her mother entrusts her with the keys to an unruly language. Having grown up and set sail for the city, where she lives for two, the daughter in turn gives birth to her mother by telling their story.
In an address to the woman who gave her everything, Kristina Gauthier-Landry offers an indomitable and luminous tale. Weaving together generations of unassuming women, she makes a water-clearing cry, ready to shake things up to live her life and leave proof that she exists.
