The Year of My Disappearance

Winner of the 2016 Prix des Libraires Winner of the 2016 Quebecor Prize for the Trois-Rivières Poetry Festival Carole David's The Year of My Disappearance is a searing, surreal, darkly comic descent into a woman's psyche. From Governor General's Award winning translator, Donald Winkler, into English, comes this pitiless assault on the author's own torments and pretenses. Present here are figures lodged in her memory: lovers, strangers, her mother, and Bosch-like apparitions out of her dreams and