ramshackle

One fine morning, at the end of their studies, Alison and her companion leave Quebec and hit the road aboard an old van to treat themselves to a great initiation trip westward. Direction Yellowknife, capital of the little-known Canadian province of the Northwest Territories. Ramshackle recounts the adventure of their installation in this remote land, with an ingenuity and sincerity that give this story a communicative charm. On a daily basis, nothing is simple or easy in these demanding latitudes, but human relations there have an undeniable flavor of authenticity and the harshness of the environment puts into perspective many of the small problems of the ordinary city world. Endearing and often funny diary of a singular human adventure, this comic also paints the portrait of a city on the edge of the world, Yellowknife, whose atypical character perhaps foreshadows part of our climate-changing future. The title of the book, Ramshackle (in French “dilapidated”, “shaky”) refers to the shacks (shacks) assembled from odds and ends, often precarious, in which some of the inhabitants of Yellowknife live. Translated from English (Canada) by Jean-Paul Jennequin Book published with the support of the Île-de-France region The amused story of an adventurous installation in the great Canadian west that anticipates our tomorrows turned upside down by the climate.