A first novel of rare incandescence.
Thetford Mines, flagship of Quebec’s asbestos industry, summer 1986. Nine-year-old Steve Dubois and ten-year-old Poulin indulge in the pleasures of friendship. The summer season is punctuated by adventures on the high slag heaps and escapes through half-forested, half-lunar landscapes. The days of the two inseparable pass in idleness and innocence, on their bikes or lying in their cabin among the pines. But 1986 was a year of tragedy, and one of them affected Steve’s life like no other. Five years later, we find him prey to his obsession: to reconstitute his vanished paradise.
Using precise, sensual language, Sébastien Dulude tells the story of a fragile, flammable youth in a working-class American Dream that is losing momentum.
