“La femme de Valence,” an excerpt in translation

Québec Reads
Nov 7 · 9 min read

by Annie Perreault

Alto, 2018

That day, like every other day, the fish had glided back and forth overhead. With their necks craned backwards and their mouths gaped open, the thousands of visitors to the Oceanogràfic aquarium had stood for an eternity watching them through the walls of a glass tunnel.

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