“The Rage Letters is a daring and jubilant work that details the nuanced textures of queer friendship with a discerning, humorous, and powerful voice. Bah is a storyteller like no other.”
—Shazia Hafiz Ramji, Quill & Quire, starred review
“The stories … address themes of class, race, gender, and sexuality from the perspective of a queer, Black sensibility. The individual entries are linked by characters that drift in and out among them and by Bah and La Mackerel’s insistence on defamiliarizing – or, to use La Mackerel’s preferred term, ‘creolizing’ – the language. These are stories that exist in the interstices between linguistic, gender, and class groupings.”
—Steven Beattie, That Shakespearean Rag
“The Rage Letters is an invitation to sit with complexity and to savour the intricate ways people come together to bring about an atmosphere of unfurling possibility.”
—Samantha Jones, This Magazine
“My intention was to write stories, construct riddles around liberation. How does someone in a very banal, realist scenario unlock something that gives them more space, or how do they get to see themselves in the front seat?”
—Valérie Bah, en entrevue avec le journal littéraire Montreal Review of Books Montreal Review of Books
“Rendered in incendiary prose, The Rage Letters is a striking collection of linked stories which astutely and with swift humour explores the lives, identities, relationships, and furies of its characters. Grounded in the enchanting grit of Montreal and elsewhere, these stories take playful and surprising slants as their Black, queer, and trans characters navigate familiar realities with fortitude and, at times, joy.”
—Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread
Autaire: Valérie Bah
Traductrice: Kama La Mackerel
Couverture et design : CP Simonise
