Dandelion Daughter
ABOUT
THE BOOK
An intimate portrait of growing up having been assigned the wrong sex at birth. Set against the windswept countryside of the remote Charlevoix region some five hours north of Montreal, Boulianne-Tremblay’s autobiographical novel immortalizes her early years as an alienated boy trapped in a world of small-town values. In the midst of her parents’ dissolving marriage, Boulianne-Tremblay takes us through the complex adolescent years of self-discovery and first loves, to the harrowing episodes that fuel the growing realization that she must transition and give birth to her new self if she is to continue living at all. One of the first novels of its kind to appear in Quebec.
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Eli
Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is the author of knot body, shortlisted for a QWF award, and The Good Arabs, which won the 2022 Grand prix du livre de Montreal. Dandelion Daughter is their first translation.
Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is the author of knot body, shortlisted for a QWF award, and The Good Arabs, which won the 2022 Grand prix du livre de Montreal. Dandelion Daughter is their first translation.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
This début novel by Québécoise actress and poet Gabrielle Boulianne-Tremblay poignantly charts the narrator’s journey of self-discovery and realisation of her identity as a trans woman. At times autobiographical, this intimate account is told in affecting lyrical prose and beautifully rendered in English by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch, a talented author in their own right.