Kiss the Undertow

MARIE-HÉLÈNE LAROCHELLE used to be a competitive swimmer and is now an associate professor at York University. Her research and writing focus on invective, violence, and discomfort in literature, areas abundantly explored in her first novel, Daniil and Vanya. Kiss the Undertow (Je suis le courant la vase) was a French-language finalist for the 2022 Trillium Book Award. She lives in Toronto.MICHELLE WINTERS is a writer, painter, and translator born and raised in Saint John, NB. Her debut novel, I Am a Truck, was shortlisted for the 2017 Scotiabank Giller Prize. She is the translator of Kiss the Undertow and Daniil and Vanya by Marie-Hélène Larochelle. She lives in Toronto.

"On a tour through the days and nights of a young athlete being exploited by her coach, Kiss the Undertow accumulates in turbulence. Discomfiting and sensorial, Larochelle's narrator pushes herself to the blurry edges of pleasure, dirt, and revelation. I couldn't stop reading." — Tamara Faith Berger, author of Yara