We're excited to announce the return of One eRead Canada, an annual digital, bilingual, cross-Canada book club initiated and supported by the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC). This year’s featured book is Valid by Chris Bergeron, with the English version translated by Natalia Hero. The book is available in both English and French, with the audiobook in French.
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.
From April 1st to April 30th, library members can download the eBook and audiobook without waitlists or holds, so that all Canadians can read along at the same time.
Questions? Contact us at
ask@coqlibrary.ca.