Sisters, Are You With Me?
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What’s your solution for achieving equality between men and women? For Chloé Delaume, the secret is sorority. In other words, women and their allies working together for a common goal: moving beyond the patriarchy, which just needs a good shove to topple right over. Sorority, humour (which can be biting at times), and truthfulness, according to Delaume, are the keys to turning the page and founding a society where gender inequality is a thing of the past. In this witty and inspiring book, she outlines the current situation—with its positives and negatives—shares personal stories of her experiences with sexism, and offers tips and tricks for using sorority to bring about true and lasting change. With quips, statistics, songs, poems, and personal conviction, Delaume’s Sisters, Are You With Me? will make you angry, make you laugh, and—most of all—make you want to join her fight.
Sisters, Are You With Me? is a feminist manifesto written by French autofiction writer Chloé Delaume. She has published over 30 books in her native France, and has won several prestigious prizes, including the Prix Décembre and the Prix Médicis. She is outspoken in her feminism and particularly in her criticism of violence towards women by their domestic partners. In addition to writing novels, she has written radio plays, essays, screenplays, and song lyrics. She often presents staged readings of her work, and collaborates with artists, designers, and musicians. Sisters, Are You With Me? is the second of her books to be translated into English.
Angelbirds (Forthcoming June, 2022)
To ward off any future bad luck that might befall his family, Laurent says, “We certainly paid our dues that day,” referring to the car accident in which his father died. Nonetheless, life still has struggles in store for him, his married mistress Florence, her husband Pierre, and their daughter Marine. As Marine faces teenage anxiety, sexual harassment, and her first consensual sexual experiences, Florence must decide if her future is with Pierre the web designer or Laurent the French professor with a passion for astronomy. On the other hand, Pierre must learn to leave behind past hurts and be honest about his feelings, while Laurent decides if he is better off with people in his life or if the stars in the night sky are better company. Marine in particular is helped forward by Laurent’s mother, stricken with dementia and living in a nursing home, but convinced that her guardian angel is close at hand. But where are Laurent’s, Florence’s, Pierre’s and Marine’s guardian angels?
Author of over 20 titles, Régine Detambel is both a novelist and an essay writer. She holds the rank of Chevalière de l’ordre des Arts et Lettres and has been awarded the Académie française’s Anna de Noailles prize. Her most recent publication, Platine (2018), explores the theme of oppression of women through the example of Hollywood sex symbol Jean Harlow. In addition to writing, Régine Detambel also offers training in her own method of book therapy. Translator Dawn M. Cornelio is a professor of French at the University of Guelph, where she specialises in contemporary French women’s writing and literary translation. She has published a number of articles about author Chloé Delaume, along with several book-length translations. She is the founder and president of New Dawn Editions, which focuses on bringing more French and Francophone women’s writing into English. Anglebirds is the company’s second title.