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Valid by Chris Bergeron, with the English version translated by Natalia Hero, is the book choice for One eRead Canada 2025. Port Moody Public Library will make the English (eBook) and French (eBook or downloadable audiobook) editions of Valid available with no holds or waitlists from April 1 to 30, 2024.
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About the Book
A genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, Valid shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution.
Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.
(House of Anansi Press)
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About One eRead Canada
One eRead Canada is organized by the Canadian Urban Libraries Council/Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada (CULC/CBUC). Libraries are facing very high costs for ebooks and eaudiobooks - and some titles aren't available to libraries at all. With this campaign, CULC wants to show that libraries introduce readers to new books, which actually helps to drive sales to publishers.
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