Aphelia
By (Author) Mikella Nicol
Translated by Lesley Trites
Vehicule Press
Esplanade Books
1st September 2019
Canada
General
Fiction
843.92
Paperback
160
Width 127mm, Height 191mm, Spine 7mm
95g
Capturing the emblematic ennui of a brooding Montr alaise, a millennial novel by one of Quebec's brightest young feminists. Montreal is in the grips of one of its summer heat waves, when searing temperatures have a way of making its residents cast aside their better judgment. A young twenty-something works the night shift at a call center, her only
Mikella Nicol is the author of two novels, Les filles bleues de l't and Aphelia. She lives in Montreal where she works as a librarian. Lesley Trites is the author of the story collection A Three-Tiered Pastel Dream (Vhicule Press, 2017) and the poetry collection echoic mimic (Invisible Publishing, 2011). Winner of the 2016 3Macs carte blanche Prize, she lives in Montreal, where she is the associate editor of the Montreal Review of Books.