The Bigamist by Felicia Mihali, translated by Linda Leith
Canadian | CBC Books | Posted: February 13, 2025 1:25 PM | Last Updated: February 13
A woman struggles to choose between her husband and lover
The Bigamist tells the story of a woman torn between her husband and her lover—and about her transition to a new life in a city teeming with multiple identities. Tension mounts as she risks offending everyone in her conservative immigrant community if she chooses to leave her husband.
The comings and goings between these two men reveal couples torn not only by conflicting loves and loyalties, but also by the chasm separating their present in Montreal from the past they've left behind.
The comings and goings between these two men reveal couples torn not only by conflicting loves and loyalties, but also by the chasm separating their present in Montreal from the past they've left behind.
(From Linda Leith Publishing)
The Bigamist is available in March 2025.
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Felicia Mihali is a writer, translator and publisher from Montreal. She is the founder and president of Montreal publishing house Éditions Hashtag. Her debut novel, Le pays du fromage (A Ramshackle Home) was published in 2002, followed by six more French-language books. In 2012, she published her first English novel, The Darling of Kandahar.