Six Degrees of Freedom
CBC Books | CBC | Posted: August 14, 2017 4:52 PM | Last Updated: August 31, 2017
Nicolas Dickner, translated by Lazer Lederhendler
Three characters, infinite paths to freedom. Lisa is a young woman whose longing for adventure is tethered by the demands of an eccentric mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who becomes independently wealthy before his 18th birthday.
And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious shipping container Papa Zulu, she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide. (From Knopf Canada)
Six Degrees of Freedom won the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French.