France Daigle casts a droll eye on what it means to be born a writer in the middle of the twentieth century. 1953 crackles with wit, intelligence, and insight, and the year in question emerges as a turning point not only for the heroine, but also for the entire world.

1953: Chronicle of a Birth Foretold

Literature & Fiction

Daigle, France

Contemporary

House of Anansi Press

Just Fine is a touching and often hilarious novel that traces the mishaps and misadventures of a conflicted agoraphobe: a woman psychologically restricted to a life indoors but spiritually inclined to wander the meadows, roads, and community beyond the house and river of her youth. Her struggle assumes historic proportions when her neighbors in the small town of Dieppe begin to dream of their own escapes from the insular, predictable cadences of life in Acadia: Camil changes his name; Terry embarks on a voyage of discovery; Carmen studies exotic river deltas; Elizabeth searches for a transcendent love; and the woman at the center of it all, the agoraphobe, dreams of travelling to Paris and telling her story to a French television star. The course of their endeavors, like the river that dominates Dieppe, twists and turns, and playfully reveals a landscape of wonderment and new beginnings. In its brilliant collage of river lore, art history, astrology, and mythology France Daigle's rich and witty novel journeys beyond the cultural, psychological, and literary bounds within which its characters live and leads us to where history, fantasy, and memory collide.

Just Fine: A Novel

Humor & Satire

In this delightful novel, both humankind's smallest problems and largest questions occupy the same delightful stage. Terry's on-and-off job allows him to take care of his baby son, Etienne, while wife Carmen works as a waitress and aspiring manager of a popular pool lounge. Terry loves the I Ching and has been consulting his oracle daily. Sometimes he also visits his friend Zed, who is converting an old building into lofts and a cultural center. As the novel unfolds, unexpected possibilities develop between Terry, Carmen, and Zed. All of this activity stirs up the three friends' spirits, as well as opening up difficult questions, and more than a little anxiety. Everything they've taken for granted in their lives is suddenly called into question, even the language they speak in front of Etienne. Life's Little Difficulties raises big issues that suddenly, in the end, seem solvable.

Life's Little Difficulties

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Editions d'Acadie

PRIX ANTONINE-MAILLET-ACADIE VIE 1999PRIX ÉLOIZE 1998PRIX FRANCE-ACADIE 1998Partant ici d'un tableau de Bruegel, là d'une médaille de saint Christophe ou des entrelacs de la langue acadienne, Pas pire raconte les égarements drolatiques d'une agoraphobe coincée entre la rivière de son enfance et les méandres de la vie d'artiste.Le sac à malice de France Daigle semble inépuisable. Et si l'idée de collage, à propos de Pas pire, résiste si peu, c'est que les rapprochements entre les diverses pièces du puzzle, pour singuliers qu'ils soient, sont toujours fonctionnels. Volontiers facétieux, l'écrivain ne perd de vue aucun de ses multiples matériaux ; il sait les fusionner de façon telle que l'ensemble présente une cohérence et une densité sans faille. - Réginald Martel, La PresseAvec France Daigle, l'Acadie s'installe, sans amnésie ni trahison, dans une séduisante et déconcertante modernité. La Liberté, moqueuse et assurée, s'en donne, littéralement, à cœur joie. - Laurent Laplante, Nuit blanche

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Genre Fiction

BOREAL

Petites difficultés d'existence

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