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Winner 2022, Prix des Libraires Rights for TV adaptation purchased by Zone 3 A runaway bestseller in QuEbec, where it has captured the hearts of readers and pushed trans-identity into the mainstream conversation, Dandelion Daughter is an intimate, courageous portrait of what it's like to grow up having been assigned…
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The first work of autofiction published in Quebec by a trans woman, Dandelion Daughter, tells the story of a young trans girl growing up in Charlevoix, a rural region in Canada, in the 1990s.
At one point in the novel, she writes: “During disasters, people often bring the things that are most precious to them before leaving their house to its fate.” The thing that Boulianne-Tremblay chooses to salvage – and honour – in these pages is her childhood.
The book is filled with love, anger, and confusion, but ultimately it is a story of hope. The dandelion metaphor…
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