Twin siblings in Montreal, children of a Quebecois folk singer who is famous enough to have ruined them and not famous enough to have provided anything.
The voice is the whole thing. Nouschka narrates with a brightness the material does not support, and the gap between how she describes her life and what is actually happening in it is where the book lives.
Set around the 1995 referendum, which gives the personal collapse something larger to lean against.
Read March 2015.