In this impassioned and wildly imagined story of creation, a girl named Dãa, is born to "twenty-four mothers," the sisters of a convent at the edge of the Quebec taiga. Nearby, at the Kohle mining company, a woman dies giving birth to Laure, a child with albinism, in the workers' canteen. What follows is a dream-like recounting of their love affair and the family they bear, a captivating magic-realist tale of origins and opposites, that would be fantastical if it did not ring so true to the boreal north. White Resin is at once a dream-like romance and an homage to gorgeous, feral, and fecund nature as it both stands against and entwined with the industrial world. (From House of Anansi Press)

White Resin is a finalist for the 2022 Governor General's Literary Award for French-to-English translation. The winner will be announced on Nov. 16, 2022.

Audrée Wilhelmy is a Montreal author. Her work includes the 2019 novel The Body of the Beasts. She is the winner of France's Sade Award, has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the Prix France-Québec and the Quebec Booksellers Award.

Susan Ouriou is a writer, editor and literary translator from Calgary. She has previously won the Governor General's Literary Award for translation for her work.