The Body's Place



by Elise Turcotte
translated by Sheila Fischman

ISBN 9781896951461 | 5.5" x 8.5" | TPB with French Flaps | $22.95
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations

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Synopsis

Helene, 15, lives with her younger sister and brother and their parents in a house near a river with an island. School is out for the summer, it's hard to find things to do to ward off boredom, but Helene finds work in a garage. A girl her age has gone missing and, eventually, her murdered body is found on the island, l'ile de la merci. In this atmosphere of violence and fear, Helene tries to understand the silences in her house, the sexual yearnings she's beginning to experience, the eloquent lure of nothingness — of death. This summer will mark the end of a certain innocence and the beginning of a journey of discovery of the body and its place.
Reviews
"Turcotte ... has created a shimmering surface that moves in and out of concreteness and abstraction. She adroitly catches the mind of a teen, and the burden on a community in emotional turmoil. She has subtle insights into the mind of children and how the world impinges on them with too much news, too much information and not enough love even in small doses." — The Globe and Mail
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