Catherine Perrin

A niece's mysterious illness becomes an aunt's urgent investigation into a medical enigma affecting hundreds of thousands.

Clara, a brilliant young engineer, sees her life upended after contracting leptospirosis. What seemed benign transforms into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS), or chronic fatigue syndrome, a devastating illness that confines her to bed. Through the eyes of her aunt Catherine, a science journalist, and her mother Agnès, the narrative documents this vertiginous descent: a woman capable of mastering multiple languages finds herself bedridden, for whom eating becomes an insurmountable challenge.

Can the medical world explain the origin of this illness, which shares many characteristics with long COVID? Can it treat it? And for Clara, what does the future hold? A powerful story about human resilience and an urgent call for recognition of these illnesses that have remained in the shadows for far too long.

Tanya Déry-Obin

A fat, Black, anxious body refuses erasure in this radical feminist manifesto

Fantasizing My Reinvention – Journey of an (Im)perfect Body traces the fragmented path that has shaped the identity of a fat, Black, anxious body. This personal essay recounts the vicious cycle and impossible postures in which bodies find themselves when they lose at the gamble of repeated diets. It accounts for the experiences that have influenced the relationship to the world of a marginalized body that resists erasure. An invitation to explore the contradictory sides of our relationships with our bodies, in order to radically connect with oneself.