Novel
Open Your Heart
- Publisher
- Véhicule Press, “Esplanade Books” series
- Published
- October 1, 2021
- Pages
- 300
- Price
- $19.95
- ISBN
- 9781550655780
- Language
- English
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The team behind the book
- Translation
- Aimee Wall
A much-celebrated auto-fictional feminist memoir, finally available in English.
In this frank and unforgettable book, celebrated Québécois writer Alexie Morin becomes the subject of her own story as she places a childhood friendship under a microscope. An autobiographical novel set in a small industrial town in Quebec during the 1990s, Open Your Heart recounts the story of a difficult friendship between two girls brought together by illness and operations suffered at a young age. One girl suffers from severe strabismus, while the other was born blue. The first, defiant, feels that something is wrong with her, while the second is an angelic child loved by all. One becomes a writer, and the other dies at eighteen, during an operation that should have saved her life.
In this debut novel, Morin stakes out an exceptional pursuit for truth in these old memories as she grapples with death, love, bonding and solitude.
Description from the publisher Véhicule Press, seen in October 2026 · Source ↗
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La fille de la sorcière Alexie Morin
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La maison du rang Lynch Alexie Morin
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Scénarios catastrophes Alexie Morin
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Ouvrir son coeur Alexie Morin
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Royauté Alexie Morin
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Chien de fusil Alexie Morin
From Véhicule Press
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We Drove All Day for This Bruce Taylor
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Qaf’s People Sadiqa de Meijer
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My Summer Vacation Zeenat Nagree
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Cannibal Rats Richard Greene
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Morgan’s Castle Jan Hilliard
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How to Move On Joel Yanofsky
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Private Number David Homel
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Fan Mail Jason Guriel
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The Inferno Dante Alighieri
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Quietly, Loving Everyone Curtis John McRae
