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Surrey Libraries is proud to join again One eRead Canada/Un livrel Canada. This year's title is Valid by Chris Bergeron, available in English and French from April 1-30.
eBook and eAudio copies will be available on OverDrive and Cantook. Everyone can read and engage in the Canada-wide digital reading program!
Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.
Check out one of the events online with the author. Here are the details:
Interview with author Chris Bergeron with host Mattea Roach (CBC)
Date: Wednesday, April 23
Time: 7:00pm Eastern Time
Hosted by: Ottawa Public Library
Link to Event Registration Page
Event Page @ OPL
Interview with author Chris Bergeron with host Katerine Verebely (Radio-Canada)
Date: Thursday, April 24
Time: 7:00pm Eastern Time
Hosted by: Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ)
Link to Event
Un livrel Canada @ BAnQ
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A collection of French language eBooks and audiobooks for readers of all ages, available through Cantook Station. Includes popular genre fiction, bestsellers, non-fiction, and more. Cantook by Aldiko app available.
Learn more about One eRead Canada.