Why translating the Canada Reads novel Suzanne was an emotional process for Rhonda Mullins
CBC Books · Posted: Mar 12, 2019 Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette‘s novel Suzanne is a fictionalized version of the life of Suzanne Meloche, the grandmother she never knew. Barbeau-Lavalette researched and wrote about her grandmother’s life as a way of understanding the decision to abandon her family in pursuit of her own fulfillment. Originally published in French as La femme qui fuit in 2015, the novel was translated