The Second Substance

For readers of Anne Boyer, Heather O’Neill, Claudia Dey, Kate Zambreno, Sheila Heti. For fans of Agnès Varda and Nomadland. Imagine Deborah Levy squatting at a gas station in rural Quebec. An inventive and moving portrait of people on the fringes of society as they search for new ways of living. One character, Mona, is pulled directly from Agnès Varda’s Vagabond because Lardeux felt compelled to save her from landing face-down in a ditch.