Searching for Sam

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Author: Sophie Bienvenu Translator: Rhonda Mullins Publisher: Talonbooks (2020) Mathieu lives on the street. His main companion is his pitbull, Sam––the one connection he retains i n the world, helping him to stay alive. So when Sam disappears out of the blue, Mathieu is left adrift. As he frantically searches for her, his past begins to re-emerge in flashbacks, revealing the tragedies of his life. Searching for Sam is a monologue written from Mathieu’s perspective, one that draws the reader into his interior world. As writer and journalist Marie Hélène Poitras writes in her insightful foreword, it is a book about survivors that “offers readers . . . a powerful human experience.” Show more