One eRead Canada

Calling all bookworms - Come read with us!

One eRead Canada is a national, bilingual digital book club connecting readers to one another and to their libraries. Libraries across Canada are offering free, unlimited eBook and audiobook access to Valid by Chris Bergeron for the month of April. No holds or waitlists!

About the Book

A genre-bending speculative look at a dark future, Valid shares the story of one trans woman leading a revolution.

Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.

About the Author

Chris Bergeron is diverse and fluid: after beginning a career in journalism and eventually winding up at the helm of the weekly cultural magazine Voir, she now dedicates her artistic vitality to Cossette, a leading global marketing agency.