If Pan’s Labyrinth was set in 2000s Quebec.

Zoey’s parents have recently separated, and it’s their first Christmas apart. Zoey is spending the first part of the holidays with his father in Lac-Saint-Jean. Amidst sparkling snowflakes and bitter cold, stretching from Christmas to New Year’s, with one family then the other, Zoey explores the hallucinatory paths of childhood with his favorite cousin, Émie-Anne, the bravest person he knows. The winding paths snake through the deep forest, populated by monsters and strange characters. A creature with a face covered by a frightening mask watches over them. Dangers are not uncommon on these paths that plunge even deeper into their minds. With the exception of his uncle’s new girlfriend, Josiane, the adults are of no help on their adventure.

Sometimes unsettling, sometimes full of magic, these snowy paths lead Zoey and Émie-Anne closer to a terrible and wonderful discovery.

Praise for May Our Joy Endure“Baroque and philosophical, May Our Joy Endure captures the sensibilities and excesses of the elite. A novel about the housing crisis told from the perspective of those causing it. Lambert captures how the ultra-wealthy justify their actions and sing their own praises while the population is crushed beneath their eloquent tapestry of lies. Lambert’s writing is lyrical and rapturous. In this book, [she] proves [herself] a satirical and whimsical Robespierre, hailing from small town Quebec.”—Heather O’Neill, author of When We Lost Our Heads“Award-winning Canadian novelist Lambert weaves a hypnotic narrative, smoothly translated from French by Winkler, about greed and inequality, hypocrisy, and, not least, a ‘dangerous notion of purity’ . . . An astute critique of entrenched power.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“From its opening pages, the novel offers a trenchant social critique in a chaotic unspooling of words—Lambert’s prose is relentless as perspectives shift rapidly with scant stops for respite.”—Marcie McCauley, Rain Taxi Review“A philosophical critique of the ultra-privileged, it tells of a famous architect who returns to her hometown and creates a furor with a widely condemned Montreal megaproject.”—Attila Berki, Quill & Quire“Winner of the Prix Médicis, Lambert’s sharp, provocative third novel embeds ever-timely themes—greed, hypocrisy and privilege—in a narrative that blends satire and lyricism, whimsy and voyeurism.”—Hephzibah Anderson, The ObserverPraise for Querelle of RobervalIt has finally arrived: the erotic Québécois novel about labor conflict that we’ve all been waiting for . . . The book is written in an icy style. Try to find a surplus adjective—I dare you. It is not for the squeamish but (or rather