Détresse et nostalgie

In Détresse et nostalgie, Yolande Bastarache paints a village, its families, its seasons, its times. From the sixteen short stories of this posthumous collection emerge of swathes of life that take on their full meaning and color, with the passing of time, the cycles of snowstorms and daisies, simple joys and strong emotions, days and decades. Yolande sketches the contours of the author's childhood home, moments of gentleness and distress, moments of daily life against a beckoning horizon.