A very old friend of mine has published her first novel entitled “Bottle Rocket Hearts”. She grew up in the west island of Montreal and finally escaped to TO many years back. The west island must have had an impact on her as her setting is Dorval and the 95 referendum. She was always very creative and had a great imagination so I’m really happy for her that she has gotten something of this caliber out into the world! Take a look if you see it on shelves or order it !!

“Welcome to Montreal in the months before the 1995 referendum. Riot Grrl gets bought out and mass marketed as the Spice Girls, and gays are gaining some legitimacy, but the queers are rioting against assimilation, cocktail AIDS drugs are starting to work, and the city walls on either side of the Main are spray-painted with the words YES or NO. It’s been five years since the OKA crisis and the sex garage riots; revolution seems possible, when you’re 18, like Eve. Eve is pining to get out of her parents’ house in Dorval and find a girl who wants to kiss her back. She meets Della — mysterious, defiantly non-monogamous, an avid separatist and ten years older. Initially taken in by a mutual other-worldly sense of rapture, they hole up in Della’s apartment, trying to navigate spaces of jealousy. On the night of the 1995 referendum, politics and romance come to a head and Eve’s naiveté begins to fade. From naive teenager to hot shot rough girl, Eve decides her own fate.”

Amazon link for the book | Her blog