“Under an Empty Sky: A Reflective Epistolary Novel by Mathilde Branthomme and Sara Danièle Michaud”

Separated by an ocean, Sara and Mathilde tell their story in an epistolary relationship filled with small everyday moments and great reflections. The absence that inhabits them gives rise to several questions around writing, abandonment, betrayal too. Inspired by several authors — Clarice Lispector, Annie Ernaux, Virginia Woolf, Jack Kerouac in the lead — they scratch and search existence in all its corners, ponder around the void, the loneliness, the silence that is not possible that by isolating oneself from the “blabla flashing on our telephones”, touches on some dysfunctions of a society which, for example, prefers to see its old people die of boredom rather than of a virus. Story written with four hands by the French Mathilde Branthomme and the Quebecer Sara Danièle Michaud, Under an empty sky offers itself slowly and goes against the tide of a hurried world. Time stretches between these pages full of literary references that leave room for contemplation and move away from the ambient agitation.

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