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“In haunting and elegiac prose, Catherine Leroux brings us into an eerie Montreal where the housing crisis has taken a disastrous turn. This is Leroux at her finest.” —Heather O’Neill, bestselling author of When We Lost Our Heads From the “unparalleled storytelling talent” (Lettres...

In an alternate history of Detroit, the Motor City was never surrendered to the US. Its residents deal with pollution, poverty, and the legacy of racism—and strange and magical things are happening: children rule over their own kingdom in the trees and burned houses regenerate themselves. When Gloria arrives looking for answers and her missing granddaughters, at first she finds only a hungry mouse in the derelict home where her daughter was murdered. But the neighbours take pity on her and she turns to their resilience and impressive gardens for sustenance.

À l’été 2001, un squelette apparaît à l’orée d’un petit bois, à quelques pas de l’Hôpital Royal Victoria à Montréal. Une enquête s’amorce, qui deviendra une quête: découvrir l’identité de cette femme morte sans bruit. Mais toutes les pistes mènent à l’impasse; celle qu’on a baptisée Madame Victoria continue d’attendre que quelqu’un prononce son nom.

In 2001, a woman’s skeleton was found in the woods overlooking Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. Despite an audit of the hospital’s patient records, a forensic reconstruction of the woman’s face, missing-person appeals, and DNA tests that revealed not only where she had lived but how she ate, the woman was never identified. Assigned the name Madame Victoria, her remains were placed in a box in an evidence room and eventually forgotten. But not by Catherine Leroux, who constructs in her form-bending Madame Victoria 12 different histories for the unknown woman.

Madeleine parle toute seule, même quand elle a de la compagnie. Lorsque son fils revient avec une demande qui bouleverse sa vie, elle comprend à qui elle s'adresse quand elle ne parle à personne. En se serrant la main pour la première fois, Ariel et Marie s'évanouissent. Des années plus tard, ils sont mariés, Ariel est à la tête d'un pays en déroute et ils sont sur le point de défaillir à nouveau.

Catherine Leroux's first novel, translated into English brilliantly by Lazer Lederhendler, ties together stories about siblings joined in surprising ways. A woman learns that she absorbed her twin sister's body in the womb and that she has two sets of DNA; a girl in the deep South pushes her sister out of the way of a speeding train, losing her legs; and a political couple learn that they are nonidentical twins separated at birth. The Party Wall establishes Leroux as one of North America's most intelligent and innovative young authors.