Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
"The literary thriller exists. Andree A. Michaud is the proof." La Presse
"The writing is impassioned, inspired. The pace is breathless, yet punctuated by scenes of everyday family life." Le Devoir
Where deep woods cover the Maine border, blending together two countries and two languages, the summer of 1967 is a time of fear. Teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, attracting the attention of boys and men, before they're found gruesomely murdered felled by long-dead woodsman's bear traps. Andree, the little girl whose name nobody can pronounce, watches the police investigate, unaware of how profoundly these events will impact her passage into womanhood.
Reminiscent of Scandinavian thrillers by Asa Larsson, Henning Mankell, and others, Boundary was a crossover hit when first published in the French, winning both the Governor General's Award for literature and the Arthur Ellis Prize for mystery novels. By weaving a tale of unbearable suspense and meticulously evoked atmosphere, Michaud transforms endless forests, haunted people, and primal terror into an irresistibly gripping summer read.
Andree A. Michaud is a novelist from Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction twice: first for the novel Le ravissement in 2001, and again for the novel Bondree in 2014. In addition to writing award-winning fiction, Michaud has penned several critically acclaimed plays.
Donald Winkler, a Montreal-based literary translator, is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award.
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Synopsis
"A dense and beautiful novel about the human condition... While most crime novels put the murder center stage, this one instead uses the crime to deeply examine the complexity of what it means to be alive... Spellbinding."--Kirkus Reviews, STARRED REVIEW
"Atmospheric and haunting, this novel about the lingering effects of violence is impossible to turn away from."--Foreword Reviews
"The literary thriller exists. Andree A. Michaud is the proof."--La Presse
"The writing is impassioned, inspired. The pace is breathless, yet punctuated by scenes of everyday family life."--Le Devoir
Where deep woods cover the Maine border, blending together two countries and two languages, the summer of 1967 is a time of fear. Teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, attracting the attention of boys and men, before they're found gruesomely murdered -- felled by bear traps. Andree, the little girl whose name nobody can pronounce, watches the police investigate, unaware of how profoundly these events will impact her passage into womanhood.
Reminiscent of Scandinavian thrillers by Asa Larsson and Henning Mankell, Boundary was a crossover hit when first published in the French, winning both the Governor General's Award for literature and the Arthur Ellis Award for mystery novels. By weaving a tale of unbearable suspense and meticulously evoked atmosphere, Michaud transforms endless forests, haunted people, and primal terror into an irresistibly gripping summer read.
Andree A. Michaud is a novelist from Quebec. She won the Governor General's Award for French-language fiction twice: first for the novel Le ravissement in 2001, and again for the novel Bondree in 2014. In addition to writing award-winning fiction, Michaud has penned several critically acclaimed plays.
Donald Winkler, a Montreal-based literary translator, is a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award.
Synopsis
In the deep woods of the Maine borderlands, the legend of huntsman Pete Landry is still told around cottage campfires to scare children, a tragic story of love, lust, and madness. During the early summer of 1967, inseparable teenage beauties Sissy Morgan and Zaza Mulligan wander among the vacation cottages in the community of Boundary, drinking and smoking and swearing, attracting the attention of boys and men. First one, and then the other, goes missing, and both are eventually found dead in the forest. Have they been the victims of freak accidents? Or is someone hunting the young women of Boundary? And if there is a hunter, who might be next? The Summer of Love quickly becomes the Summer of Fear, and detective Stan Michaud, already haunted by a case he could not solve, is determined to find out what exactly is happening in Boundary before someone else is found dead.
A story of deep psychological power and unbearable suspense, Andree A. Michaud's award-winning Boundary is an utterly gripping read about a community divided by suspicion and driven together by primal terror.