Coach House Quebec translations

These Our Mothers, Or, The Disintegrating Chapter

Plot

Quebecois avant-garde poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard was born in Montreal, Canada, and educated at the Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal.

Brossard’s work explores feminism, desire, and their connection to the structure and flexibility of language.

Her work is known for exploration of feminist themes and for challenging masculine-oriented language and points of view in French literature.