![]() ![]() From the grind of Montreal service jobs, to isolated French Ontario countryside childhoods, to the tenuous cooperation of Bay Area punk squats, the three young women navigate everyday losses and fears against the backdrop of a tumultuous twenty-first century. But when their friend dies by suicide in the abandoned city lot where they once gathered, they must carry on in the world that left him behind-one they once dreamed they would change for the better. I will go through the hole in the fence and I’ll dive into the icy water.įriends since grade school, Céline, Julie, and Sabrina come of age at the start of a new millennium, supporting each other and drifting apart as their lives pull them in different directions. The water will be icy, but it will still be in a liquid state. You have to pay for access to its shores, but I know where there’s a hole in the fence. Finalist for the 2023 French-American Translation Prize ![]()
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