The Music Game
Will appeal to readers interested in gritty coming-of-age stories about women and fiction that addresses LGBT and feminist issues. Themes of suicide, trauma, addiction, domestic violence, sexual assualt.
First published in French in 2018 by Le Quartanier, French publishers of Stephane Larue’s The Dishwasher (Biblioasis 2019)
Le jeu de la musique won the Ringuet Prize of the Quebec Academy of Arts and Letters, the Quebec Arts Council's prize for a new work by a young artist, and the Adrienne Choquette Prize for short stories, and was shortlisted for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal.
A novel comprised of linked stories, with shifting POVs. This aspect of form enacts subject: POV is fluid/transitioning like the gender identities of some characters
Music features as a motif throughout: Robbie Basho’s “Orphan’s Lament” to Arcade Fire’s “A Year Without Light”
International in setting: from childhoods in French Ontario, to anarchists camps in California, to young adulthood in Montreal.
Born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario, Stéfanie Clermont travelled throughout Canada and the United States, working at a wide variety of jobs, before settling in Montreal in 2012. The Music Game, her first book, won the prestigious Ringuet Prize of the Quebec Academy of Arts and Letters, the Quebec Arts Council's prize for a new work by a young artist, and the Adrienne Choquette Prize for short stories. It was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montréal and was included in Le Combat des livres, the French-language counterpart of Canada Reads.
by David Goudreault. She has lived in England, France and Canada.
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