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Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette

Born 1979 · Canada

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Books on prize lists

  • In English

    Governor General's (French) 2016 · Finalist

    Suzanne

    La femme qui fuit

    Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette · 36 when first published

    Novel · 378 pages · Family, Historical, Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:A writer who never knew her mother's mother, Suzanne, who stood with the Refus global painters in 1948 and then abandoned her two children, hires a private detective to retrace her grandmother's life.