Suzanne

SHORTLISTED FOR CBC CANADA READS 2019 WINNER OF THE BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD Eighty-five years of art and history through the eyes of a woman who fled her family - as re-imagined by her granddaughter. Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette never knew her mother's mother. Curious to understand why her grandmother, Suzanne, a sometime painter and poet associated with Les Automatistes, a movement of dissident artists that included Paul-Émile Borduas, abandoned her husband and young family, Barbeau-Lavalette hired a private detective to piece together Suzanne's life. Suzanne, winner of the Prix des libraires…