Autopsy of a Boring Wife

by Marie-Renée Lavoie

Translated by Arielle Aaronson

Published by: House of Anansi Press Inc

Imprint: House of Anansi Press

Sales Date: 2019-03-12

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CA$22.95

Published: March 2019

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Imprint: House of Anansi Press

Page Count: 280 Pages

Dimensions: 5.20 x 7.90

280 Pages, 5.20 x 7.90 x 0.80 in

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CA$22.95

ISBN: 9781487004613

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Like a Québécois Bridget Jones’s Diary, Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband is having an affair because, he says, she bores him.

Diane takes the change to heart and undertakes an often ribald, highly entertaining journey to restore trust in herself--and others--that offers an astute commentary on women and girls, gender differences, and the curious institution of twenty-first century marriage. All the details are up for scrutiny in this brisk, yet tender story of a path to recovery. Autopsy of a Boring Wife is a wonderfully fresh novel of the pitfalls of an apparently “boring” life that could be any of ours.

MARIE-RENÉE LAVOIE was born in 1974 in Limoilou, near Quebec City. She is the author of four novels, including Mister Roger and Me, which won ICI Radio-Canada’s “Battle of the Books” — the Quebec equivalent of “Canada Reads” — and the Archambault Prize; Autopsy of a Boring Wife, which was a finalist for the Forest of Reading Evergreen Award, a Hoopla Book Club selection, and a CBC Best Books of the Year, and is currently being developed for television; and A Boring Wife Settles the Score. She lives in Limoilou.

Lavoie’s fiercely hilarious take on the pains and triumphs of marital abandonment feels perfectly right. Toronto Star

Lavoie keeps her novel short, offering chaotic humour and snappy observation to balance the pain and loss . . . A readable, recognizable, tragicomic account of coping with domestic disaster. Kirkus Reviews

With great humour and tenderness, Marie-Renée Lavoie recounts Diane’s journey to regain trust in both herself and the people around her . . . A piercing commentary on gender, marriage, and the nuances of self-love. Toronto Life

A provocative, funny, and candid story. Winnipeg Free Press

The characters are vivid and entertaining . . . The scenes and dialogue can be laugh-out-loud funny, and the narrative hums along smoothly, facilitated by the fine translation from French by Arielle Aaronson. Montreal Review of Books

A CBC Book of the Year
Forest of Reading Evergreen Award

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