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category: Fiction
published: Oct 2024
ISBN:9781771669115
publisher: Book*hug Press

Sugaring Off

by Fanny Britt, translated by Susan Ouriou

tagged: marriage & divorce, contemporary women, cultural heritage
Description

Winner of the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-Language Fiction, Sugaring Off probes intimacy, denial, and how we are tied to others—whether those we love or those we exploit.

On the surface, Adam and Marion are the embodiment of success: wealthy, attractive, in love. While holidaying in Martha’s Vineyard, Adam surfs into a local young woman, Celia. The accident leaves her injured and financially at risk; for Adam and Marion, it opens a fault of loneliness, rage, and desires that have too long been ignored.

Like a modern Virginia Woolf, Britt abrades the surface layer of our outward personas, delving into the complexity and contradictions of relationships. In this eviscerating critique of privilege, she asks what happens when one can no longer play a role—whether in a couple, family, or social structure—and exposes the resulting friction between pleasure and consequence.

About the Authors

Fanny Britt

FANNY BRITT is a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards, a Libris Award, a Joe Shuster Award, and was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. Faires les sucres won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language Fiction in 2021. Britt has written a dozen plays and translated more than fifteen works by many American, Canadian, British, and Irish playwrights. Born in Northern Quebec, Britt lives in Montreal.


Susan Ouriou

FANNY BRITT is a playwright, writer, and translator. She is the winner of multiple Governor General’s Literary Awards, a Libris Award, a Joe Shuster Award, and was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award for Children’s Literature. Faires les sucres won the Governor General’s Literary Award for French-language Fiction in 2021. Britt has written a dozen plays and translated more than fifteen works by many American, Canadian, British, and Irish playwrights. Born in Northern Quebec, Britt lives in Montreal.

Editorial Reviews

“A moving tale of human experience heralding social change.” —Le Devoir


“Presents a privileged couple whose suddenly troubled path initially causes them to drift apart only to reveal themselves more fully to each other. All of which is conveyed in Fanny Britt's flights of oratory and magnificent long sentences, a troubling and accurate echo of our inner voices.” —Journal de Montreal


“Britt is a delight of a writer” — Emily Weedon

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