A Boring Wife Settles the Score

PRAISE FOR MARIE-RENÉE LAVOIE AND A BORING WIFE SETTLES THE SCORE

“[Lavoie] writes in praise of ordinary women. Diane is perfect in her imperfection, strong, generous, and loving.” — Le Devoir

“Sometimes grave and sometimes comic, [Lavoie’s novels] always have their own particular mark: fully fleshed-out characters rooted in the real, perfectly chiseled sentences, and a fine sense of humour even in difficult moments.” — L’Actualité

“Funny and moving.With that charming touch evident in all of Marie-Renée Lavoie’s work, Diane is back.” — Librairies de Québec.

PRAISE FOR MARIE-RENÉE LAVOIE AND AUTOPSY OF A BORING WIFE

Finalist, Forest of Reading Evergreen Award

Longlist, CBC Canada Reads

A CBC Book of the Year

“Lavoie’s fiercely hilarious take on the pains and triumphs of marital abandonment feels perfectly right.” — Toronto Star

“Lavoie keeps her novel short, offering chaotic humour and snappy observation to balance the pain and loss . . . A readable, recognizable, tragicomic account of coping with domestic disaster.” — Kirkus Reviews

“With great humour and tenderness, Marie-Renée Lavoie recounts Diane’s journey to regain trust in both herself and the people around her . . . A piercing commentary on gender, marriage, and the nuances of self-love.” — Toronto Life

“A provocative, funny, and candid story.” — Winnipeg Free Press

“The characters are vivid and entertaining . . . The scenes and dialogue can be laugh-out-loud funny, and the narrative hums along smoothly, facilitated by the fine translation from French by Arielle Aaronson.” — Montreal Review of Books

“With writing that makes us fall in love from the very first page, and with a view of married life that is oh so lucid, Lavoie journeys with Diane to the bottom of the barrel, providing unforgettable scenes of altercations with her former sister-in-law, mother-in-law, and ex-husband’s new girlfriend before she surfaces by virtue of tactics that are simultaneously confrontational, true-to-life, and wildly entertaining.” — Huffington Post Québec

“Marie-Renée Lavoie leads us through all her heroine’s states of mind with vivid writing that shoots arrows fashioned from anything at hand; we are not exhausted for a moment and accompany Diane everywhere and in the most unlikely of situations. At the end of it all, we love this ‘boring’ woman, we really do.” — Journal de Montréal

“Marie-Renée Lavoie is a highwire artist who derives her strength from her knowledge of human foibles.” — La Presse

“Employing the tone and construction of a classic comedy, here’s a novel that engulfs us in the wake of a woman on the verge of an unabating nervous breakdown . . . wacky, scathing humour, good dialogue and assuredly lively.” — Le Devoir

“Brimming with energy, Autopsy of a Boring Wife narrates Diane’s survival of her separation (cue Gloria Gaynor). Lavoie deploys wit and the vernacular to render wholly believable the story of someone who is not a fighter, but a woman like any other.” — Tête de Lecture

“A novel that surpasses sadness to find a place in the light.” — Bible Urbaine

“Autopsy of a Boring Wife is slapstick, funny, and absurd, but underlined with a tenderness and poignance that will have you rooting for happily ever after after that.” — Pickle Me This

“Fresh, funny, and a lot of fun to read.” — Consumed by Ink