Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon

Fiction. Translated from the French by Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood. Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with grief and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk--about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing. From their talk emerges a lively and beguiling read about life and death and the vertigo of ruins. "A new work by Brossard is an event--YESTERDAY, AT THE HOTEL CLARENDON is not merely experimental. It's radical"--The Globe and Mail. Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books over the last forty years. She has received two Governor General's Awards, the Athanase-David Prize and the W. O. Mitchell Prize. She lives in Montreal.