The Music Game

Will appeal to readers interested in gritty coming-of-age stories about women and fiction that addresses LGBT and feminist issues. Themes of suicide, trauma, addiction, domestic violence, sexual assualt.

First published in French in 2018 by Le Quartanier, French publishers of Stephane Larue’s The Dishwasher (Biblioasis 2019)

Le jeu de la musique won the Ringuet Prize of the Quebec Academy of Arts and Letters, the Quebec Arts Council’s prize for a new work by a young artist, and the Adrienne Choquette Prize for short stories, and was shortlisted for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal.

A novel comprised of linked stories, with shifting POVs. This aspect of form enacts subject: POV is fluid/transitioning like the gender identities of some characters

Music features as a motif throughout: Robbie Basho’s Orphan’s Lament to Arcade Fire’s A Year Without Light

International in setting: from childhoods in French Ontario, to anarchists camps in California, to young adulthood in Montreal.