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Title: COLD CHAOS, Stories from a North
Author: Nathalie Guilbeault
Publisher: Montreal Publishing Company
Genre: Literary fiction; collection of short stories
Format PDF
Word count: 43000
Pages: 169
To be published: February 2025

Author Biography: Nathalie Guilbeault is the author of the novels INHALED and WHEN I BECAME NEVER. She is the French Editor of the Nelligan Review, a bilingual literary and cultural journal. Her work has appeared in various journals, magazines, and anthologies. A native Montrealer, Nathalie is now living in North Hatley, Quebec.

Synopsis: COLD CHAOS, Stories from a North, is Guilbeault’s first collection of short stories.

Set in northern Quebec, where the author lived most of her teenage years, the stories decompose the emotional and physical realities of living between the 49th and 55th northern parallels, inside the peacefulness and isolation of its landscape. Humorous, dark, and sometimes tragic, the fourteen stories Guilbeault offers, play with the themes of loss, of love, of coming of age. Of resilience, mostly.

Auto-fictive in essence, Guilbeault's stories press on memory's core, a place where imagination and truths mingle.