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All Kidding Aside

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Pub Date Sep 01 2025 | Archive Date Sep 30 2025

General Fiction (Adult) | LGBTQIAP+

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Louis, a young queer man, lives in Pointe-aux-Trembles, in Montreal’ s east end, with his rap-obsessed, schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim Horton’ s, Louis dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Delivered in short, addictive chapters, All Kidding Aside deftly juggles themes of love, class, and grief with poetic mockery and spare, electric banter.

Louis, a young queer man, lives in Pointe-aux-Trembles, in Montreal’ s east end, with his rap-obsessed, schizophrenic brother and their terminally ill father. While working at a Tim...

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A Note From the Publisher
Delivered in short, addictive chapters, All Kidding Aside deftly juggles themes of love, class, and grief with poetic mockery and spare, electric banter.

Translated by award-winning author and translator Neil Smith

Delivered in short, addictive chapters, All Kidding Aside deftly juggles themes of love, class, and grief with poetic mockery and spare, electric banter.

Translated by award-winning author and...

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Advance Praise

“All Kidding Aside (…) takes its readers on a journey into a world woven with turbulent adventures, offering a deep and captivating exploration of brotherly love, precarity, and grief.” – Alice Laforce, le Nouvelliste

“In Jean-Christophe Réhel’s (…) ‘love letter to comedy’, the poet and screenwriter wrestles with themes that challenge, yet never dip into pity. The winner of the Prix littéraire des collégiens celebrates the beauty the everyday… and laughs about it.”- Radio-Canada"

“All Kidding Aside (…) takes its readers on a journey into a world woven with turbulent adventures, offering a deep and captivating exploration of brotherly love, precarity, and grief.” – Alice...

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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781771863803
PRICE CA$24.95 (CAD)
PAGES 306

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