Angélique Lalonde
November 06th, 2025
From the Giller-shortlisted author of Glorious Frazzled Beings (Astoria, 2021) comes Angélique Lalonde’s beguiling debut novel, Variations on a Dream (McClelland & Stewart $26.95), humming with sensuality intelligence and a tinge of the absurd. The novel explores the collapse of a marriage after years of shouldering childcare and career struggles. Sarah, the wife, is burned out and manages by crafting an imaginary version of her husband, while her husband Trevor is caught in a downward spiral of sexual frustration and fear of artistic mediocrity. When both secretly stumble on an auteur porn film based on the Greek myth of Ariadne and Dionysus, they are sucked into a dizzying maze of obsession betrayal and duplicate selves. Lalonde’s work, which has been featured in PRISM International, The Journey Prize Stories and The Malahat Review, received the 2019 Writers’ Trust McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize. 9780771012600
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