Worst Case, We Get Married

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Publication Year:
2019

ISBN-13: 9781771664912

<p>A&iuml;cha lives with her mother in Montreal's Centre-Sud neighbourhood. She's only thirteen but claims to be older. She has never known her father, and resents her mother for leaving Hakim, her stepfather. Her only friends are Mel and Jo, two local prostitutes, and Baz, a musician in his twenties, who comes to her rescue one day and with whom she proceeds to fall in love. Her impossible love for Baz, her precociousness and her rebellious streak come together into an explosive cocktail. Raw and heartrending, </i>Worst Case, We Get Married</i> is the statement A&iuml;cha gives to a social worker.</p><p>From acclaimed Qu&eacute;b&eacute;cois writer Sophie Bievenu, and translated by JC Sutcliffe, comes <i>Worst Case, We Get Married</i>, a powerful and moving coming-of-age novel. Originally published in French in 2011 as <i>Et au pire, on se mariera</i>, the novel was adapted into a film by Bienvenu and L&eacute;a Pool in 2017. </p><p>"Sophie Bienvenu gets inside the head of a whip-smart, lovesick teenager whose fantasy life bleeds into her reality to chilling effect. Listen to her story and be seduced (and horrified). <i>Worst Case, We Get Married</i> is Quebec lit at its best." &mdash;Neil Smith, author of <i>Boo</i></p>