Governor General's (French) 2014 · Finalist
The Heart Is What Dies Last
C’est le cœur qui meurt en dernier
Robert Lalonde · 66 when first published
Novel · 115 pages · Family, Autofiction
AI-generated summary:Waking from a dream in which his dead mother spoke to him in an unknown tongue, a son addresses her, a woman trapped by fate who keeps up a relationship of tenderness and battle with him from beyond the grave.