After learning of his father's death, Matthieu (33), a Parisian, plans to attend his burial in order to visit his two sisters in Quebec. His existence is unknown and unappreciated in Montréal. He is alone in hostile land... Themes like masculinity, family, fatherhood, and filial loyalty are interwoven throughout this novel about one man's coming to terms with the foreign family he never knew he had
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After learning of his father's death, Matthieu (33), a Parisian, plans to attend his burial in order to visit his two sisters in Quebec. His existence is unknown and unappreciated in Montréal. He is alone in hostile land... Themes like masculinity, family, fatherhood, and filial loyalty are interwoven throughout this novel about one man's coming to terms with the foreign family he never knew he had
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