One eRead/Un Livrel Canada is a digital book club connecting readers and libraries from across Canada
On April 1, hundreds of participating Canadian public libraries will offer free, unlimited access to Valid, opens a new window by Chris Bergeron in eBook and Audiobook as part of One eRead Canada. Valid will be available in English and French without holds or waitlists throughout April 2025 so that all Canadians can read along at the same time. Download a copy on the Libby App, opens a new window or through Cantook Station, opens a new window during the month of April and join the discussion in English or French – or both!
About Valid
Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2045, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.
About Chris Bergeron
Chris Bergeron is diverse and fluid: after beginning a career in journalism and eventually winding up at the helm of the weekly cultural magazine Voir, she now dedicates her artistic vitality to Cossette, a leading global marketing agency.
She offers speaking engagements on leadership, diversity, inclusion, and trans rights. Chris lives in Montreal.
Save the Dates for the Events
The author, Chris Bergeron, will sit down with a host from CBC on April 23rd and on April 24th she will be speaking with a host from Radio-Canada for the French program. We will share these events on our website and social media when the links are made available.
The Initiative
The Canadian Urban Libraries Council / Conseil des Bibliothèques Urbaines du Canada (CULC/CBUC) has created an opportunity for all public libraries to participate in a Canada-wide digital reading program. The initiative is similar to a “one book, one city” initiative (like Red Deer Reads, opens a new window!) but on a national scale and in digital format available in both English and French.
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