The Lover, the Lake
Jude Castillo
, diana kirkwood
, cassandra schiemann
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Catherine Kelly-Brown
, Shelley Gibbs
, Deb Philippon
, Rose Hately
, Linda Leitch
, Louise Walsh
, Andrea Pole
, Noelle Walsh
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Carol Parchewsky
, Laurie Burns
, Meradith Anderson
, Mary-Esther Lee
, Susan Terendy
, Barry Kazimer
, Natasa Ilic
, Paula Adam
, Lesley Cameron
, Amanda Magdic
, C. Ray
, Kate Thompson
, Sonia Adams
, Maria Mclean
, Fin Macdonald
, Leslie Vermeer
, Rachel Edmonds
, Janice Hutchinson
, Deanna Radford
, Christine Lion
, Rachel Lutz
, arnab ghosh
, Paula Ritchie
, Agata Gula
, Nicholas Graham
, Karen Kendrick
, Kathryn Galan
, Cynthia Heinrichs
, Karen Nordrum
, Vicki Bedford
, Jacquie Harnett
, Margaret McKay
, Heather O'Connor
, Jan Wylie
, Suzanne Nesbitt
, Linda MacIntyre
, Elizabeth Blondin
, M M English
, Huguette Lemieux
, Heather Belliveau
, Melanie Solar
, Connie Braun
, Jane Graham
, Chris Lantz
, Vivian Thorgeirson
, Elizabeth Obermeyer
, Nadia Cescato
, Esther VanGorder
, Lisa Mallia
, Kim Cappellina
, Lorraine Lambie
, Lynn Hallson
, Christopher Evans
, tom stormonth
, Lindsay Hobbs
, Sandra Dufoe
, maria blanco
, Robert Hykawy
, LJ Law
, Zara Garcia-Alvarez
, Sarah Beaudin
, Tami Osato
, Lucy Cappiello
, Rodney Cross
, Rosa Cross
, Margaret Jones
, Mary Danieli
, Heather Norris
, Sylvia McNicoll
, Denise Duvall
, Lynn Bechtel
, Margaret Elson
, P. Thompson
, Elaine Baptie
, Rebecca Dixon
, Sofie Tsatas
, joy mills
, Alissa Bender
, Joann Horgan
, Ellen Clarke
, Karen Charleson
, sarah campbell
, Susan Baues
, Nancy Daoust
, Ken Gilmour
, Anne Range
, Barbara Calder
, sue grant
, Natalie Mudri
, Debbie Youngman
, Janet Miller
, Cherryl Koylass
, Elizabeth Tibbles
, Penelope Penner
, Janice Cournoyer
, Kim Fenton
, Lara Maynard
, Wanda Brine
, Pearl Pirie
, Rebecca Ballarin
, Tanis Anne
, Manuel Vizcaya-Lois
, Alex Henderson
, Barbara Nickerson
, Diane McPherson
, Holly MacFarlane
, Joanna Koskamp
, Pat Johnston
, Stephanie Blundell
, Alora Simpson
, Tami Eklund
, Patricia Johnson
, Kendra Rey
, Shonna Froebel
, Amanda Grimson
, Melissa Poremba
, Alex Naquin
, Tracey DeAdder
, Alanna King
, Cathy White
, Tanya Corbin
, Elaine Grandon
, Mary Therrien
, Teree Hokanson
, Andrea Gillespie
, Kim Carswell
, Karen Lowe
, Sarah Stang
, Liz Woloski
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Hailey Slaviero
, Thelma Ball
, Colleen Crawley
, Sebastian Schulman
, Mary Campbell
, Sandra Furlotte
, Joshua Lewis
, Debra Fisher
, Heather Rose
, Kris Figueroa
, Stephanie Lopez-Baird
, Lisa Bilodeau
, Amanda Toki
, Mariam Ayoub
, Noreen Megyesi
, Marilyn Stanley
, Julie Kaniak
, Tanya Korigan
, Lisa Ann Prince
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When it was first published in Quebec, The Lover, The Lake was heralded as the first erotic novel written by an Indigenous woman in French. Today, as it is translated into English for the first time, author Virginia Pesemapeo Bordeleau would rather call it a celebration of sensuality, another first. At a time when Indigenous peoples were being dispossessed of their land and history as well as their relationship to the body, the love explored by Wabougouni and Gabriel is an act of defiance. Their intimate connection plays out on the shores of Lake Abitibi in an affair as turbulent and unfathomable as the lake itself.
