Worst Case, We Get Married

By (author): Sophie Bienvenu

Translated by: JC Sutcliffe

Aïcha lives with her mother in Montreal’s Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She’s only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come together into an explosive cocktail. Raw and heartrending, Worst Case, We Get Married is the statement Aïcha gives to a social worker.

From acclaimed Québécois writer Sophie Bienvenu, and translated by JC Sutcliffe, comes Worst Case, We Get Married, a powerful and moving coming-of-age novel. Originally published in French in 2011 as Et au pire, on se mariera, the novel was adapted into a film by Bienvenu and Léa Pool in 2017.

AUTHOR

JC Sutcliffe

JC SUTCLIFFE is a writer, translator, book reviewer, and editor who has lived in England, France, and Canada. She has reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, the Globe and Mail and the National Post among others.


AUTHOR

Sophie Bienvenu

Sophie Bienvenu is a Québécois writer. After studying visual communication in Paris, she settled in Québec in 2001 and quickly established herself as a successful blogger. Et au pire, on se mariera (La Mèche) her first novel, was followed by Chercher Sam, translated as Searching for Sam by Rhonda Mullins, and Autour d’elle, also translated by Rhonda Mullins as Around Her. Ceci n’est pas de l’amour (This Is Not Love) was her first poetry collection, published in 2016 by Poètes de brousse. Bienvenu’s writing takes its readers on an emotional journey, an intense exploration of profoundly human characters, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.

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“Sophie Bienvenu has given us a real tour de force the subject matter is deep and heavy but the book itself is a page turner Her writing is fluid and captures the adolescent voice with painful accuracy ltigtmamereetaithipsterltigtltbrgtltbrgtA moving and poignant story in which truth gets tangled up with one teenagers overflowing imagination ampmdashltigtLes librariesltigt”

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Dimensions:

180 Pages
8.00in * 5.25in * .40in
180.00gr
.40lb

Published:

May 08, 2019

Publisher:

Book*hug Press

ISBN:

9781771664899

Book Subjects:

FICTION / Coming of Age

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Language:

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