{"product_id":"around-her","title":"Around Her","description":"Heartily sincere, human, and compassionate, \u003cem\u003eAround Her\u003c\/em\u003e is a multifaceted novel that explores, through the words and reflections of a large community of characters, the bonds that unite us, and love in all of its manifestations – the love that one finds, that one loses, destroys, desires, or recovers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the mid-1990s, a sixteen-year-old girl, secretive and vulnerable, gives birth to a healthy boy in the anonymity of a Montreal hospital. She gives him up for adoption – a parting that will affect, perhaps even govern and determine, all successive stages of her adult life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAround Her\u003c\/em\u003e traces twenty years of the lives of Florence Gaudreault and her estranged son Adrien through the prism of twenty characters who have crossed their paths and who, each in turn and with their own unique voice, tell their story. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatiently assembling disparate points of view, those of the young, the old, the families, the couples, or the lonely souls, this novel, replete with emotive twists and turns, probes the failures and hopes of a whole segment of society, revealing the proximity of past traumas. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAround Her\u003c\/em\u003e is a highly emotional book, written with stylistic virtuosity, and populated with a complex kaleidoscope of voices. Author Sophie Bienvenu has a tangible gift for portraying real-life, contrasting characters, and revealing their idiosyncratic and evolving streams of consciousness. Around Her is Bienvenu’s fiction at its best, rigorously authentic, wholeheartedly humane, and delightfully vulnerable.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Couverture souple","offer_id":46621048340690,"sku":"9781772012095","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f931ef3c-b44f-4494-b9a3-70e5a580a34c.jpg?v=1762816131","url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/fr\/products\/around-her","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}