The narrator wants to “writing about skateboarding”, or more precisely on skateboarders. During Montreal’s hot summers, he goes hunting and hangs out in parks, hugging and sweating. Larry Clark or Dennis Cooper vibes, he notes “the hottest, they are red with effort” and stop at the most beautiful place, “yellow hair, yellow shirt falling on yellow pants, yellow boxers, yellow hair.” If not with the color, he draws it in lines: “A skater is just a skater, just a diagonal frame (/) that falls (_) and gets back up (|), but sometimes those slanted bars move, when the lines stack and overlap.» Thus memories come flooding back, and especially gaps in old relationships. The slalom text is in its language, lively, straightforward, a little overdrive like the daily life between meetings, sports (swimming pool of choice) and parties. The heart of the book is a night – it feels like that. After the journey, the second half moves towards the awakening and affirmation of a very personal “I”. By Quebec writer Underground notebook (2023). T.St.
Melancholy without self-pity, determined, from book to book, to explain without disguising what is rightfully hers and at the same time making her the child of the century, Michka Assayas returns here to the figure of her mother already mentioned. “Model maker”, He “designing ready-to-wear clothing collections”, he explained to his son.
