Two books vibrate with diversity of all kinds

In their books. Similarly, Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay and Anuja Varghese do more than abounding diversity, of gender and cultural, in all its nuances and realities. Meanwhile, They give their characters the full and whole right to get out of the shadows to exist in full light.

A transition to self -love

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The trajectory at the tortured. For example, tortuous moments of the protagonist of Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay had first allowed her to be born in his true nature in The girl herself.

This time. In addition, his alter ego comes back to us in The lightning girlwhich, while proving to be a series of the first title, can undoubtedly appreciate independently.

Thus, after having first answered the question Who are you?Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay and her heroine transfered how to be in this second self-fiction. Therefore, How to be a woman. Consequently, of course, but also how to be an actress and author, since her character is here in full promotion of the feature film in which she holds the poster and the process of writing what we guess two books vibrate diversity all The girl herself.

However. Moreover, the latter may carry the pendant of pink quartz of her grandmother and surround herself with other stones supposed to help her see clear in her and in others, she learns the hard to assume all her facets. As if she did not yet really believe that she deserves to be loved. to live in a certain serenity.

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With her pen as raw as poignant. Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay makes us fully feel how her protagonist has not necessarily found inner peace as if by magic, following its transition.

On the contrary. it is not The lightning girl For nothing: her career remains dotted with violent storms, which make it, yes, electrifying, but which leave it so often electrified.

Yes, I am a trans woman. Yes, I am often considered half a man, half a woman. But it doesn’t make me a woman half worthy of being loved.

Several of these storms are from the intimate. going from her dependence to men to two books vibrate diversity all her alcohol dependence, of which she tries to wean in both cases.

Other storms. however, fall under the public sphere, and testify to the sometimes exhausting struggle against transphobia and the judgment of others than her friends, ally and she must lead.

But if it can be wreaking havoc, lightning also allows, fortunately, lighting and soothing encounters, carrying beauty and calm. These meetings do as much as well as to the reader as to the author. her literary alter ego, leaving the hope of a life in which the two women with the trajectories so intrinsically linked can finally aspire to shine with all their fires.

Two books vibrate diversity all

Play the first role in your life

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Published in 2023. the original English version of Chrysalisthe very first book by Anuja Varghese, notably enabled him to win a prize from the Governor General.

And we quickly understand why. when we plunge into abundant erotic-fantastic-feminist and queers in which she changes her gallery of characters. In addition to representing the various realities of the LGBTQ2+community. all of them share another common point: embodying those, just as varied, two books vibrate diversity all of the South Asian diaspora, that is Indian, Pakistani and Sri-Lankan, for example.

There are people who do it: open their couple. negotiate rules and register in a polyamamoureous fairy tale where even the bad guys have the right to live happy until the end of time. Other people. Not people with brown skin. Not people like us.

Anuja Varghese offers 15 news. thanks to which she explores the emotional and physical costs of immigration, family expectations, tradition, religion, interracial marriages – without forgetting the very idea of ​​the monogamous couple – to better testify to the desires of freedom, even libertinism, characters populating her stories.

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The Ontario author does it with intelligence and balance. By evoking and summoning by the band the literary spirit of an Alice Munro and a Margaret Atwood. By playing with Hollywood and Bollywood codes of comedies, here more or less romantic. Additionally, By happily flirting with horror, houses haunted to the deadly impulses of some protagonists. Or by revisiting Cinderella’s tale squarely. All two books vibrate diversity all this in the avowed, assumed goal, to give leading roles to people from marginalized or downright invisible diversity.

In short. Anuja Varghese handles a joyfully transgressive feather, the effects of which are finely rendered by the translator and writer Mélissa Verreault, in Chrysalis.