It’s All Coming Back to Me Now

It’s 2003 and Colin, almost 17, and his best friend Eugénie are, like every other teenager in Sainte-Foy, waitingfor the bus, hanging out at the mall, logging onto MSN, working weekend shifts, steering clear of their parents, and trying not to be outcasts as they navigate their school’s social hierarchies.

Colin has two secrets: he’s obsessed with Céline Dion, and there’s this guy he likes — a swimmer. To be or not to be fake; for Colin, that’s the question, and his heart wavers somewhere between silence, obfuscation, and truth. Whimsical and provocative, It’s All Coming Back to Me Now is a heartfelt and timeless coming-of-age story.

AUTHOR

Jonathan Kaplansky

Jonathan Kaplansky studied at Tufts University and received his MA in French Language and Literature from McGill and MA in Translation at the University of Ottawa. He has translated works by Hélène Rioux, Hélène Dorion and Annie Ernaux. Originally from New Brunswick, he currently lives in Montreal.

AUTHOR

Jean-Michel Fortier

Jean-Michel Fortier was born in Quebec City in 1987. He completed a master’s degree in literature at Université Laval before moving to Montreal, where he currently works as a copy editor. The Unknown Huntsman is his first book. After immigrating to Canada from the U.K., Katherine Hastings spent ten years in Ontario before moving to Montreal, where she completed a degree in modern languages at McGill University. She has worked as a Quebec-based translator and copyeditor since 1995. This is her first stab at literary translation, a field she looks forward to exploring further.