In the Zad. From generation to generation, in the family of Violette, 16 years old, we give into the single-parent family. The men are passing through, but do not stay. In other words, they are good parents but poor fathers. So when Violette sees her grandfather coming out of nowhere, it’s clear that she doesn’t give him a warm welcome. The unknown ancestor, however, has an asset: he manages a mountain refuge, which immediately puts a dreamlike glow in the eyes of the damsel who has always hoped to become a forest. Accompanied by her grandmother and Cassandre, who sometimes feels like a girl, sometimes like a boy, she is going to spend the summer holidays with Pépé alias Pajim up there. It doesn’t take long for her to discover a formidable wild breeding ground there and from the first evening, she feels spied on by the pair of tawny, golden-brown eyes of Satang, the vixen. But the adventure gets tougher when Violette and Cassandre meet a young couple of Zadists who are planning a large-scale demonstration to save the neighboring forest from the greed of a mega-sawmill. A pact is formed between the young people. To support their commitment to biodiversity, Violette learns rock climbing in order to install protest signs at the top of the trees. “Here oak. I have the right to live. Stop the destruction of sensitive beech trees. » D-day turns sour, and the pacifist action claims victims. The extremely funny and non-binary Cassandre was once again right! A novel as alive as a forest…
Catherine Zambon
If I were a tree
South Youth Acts
Edition: 2,800 copies.
Price: €13.80; 128 p.
ISBN: 9782330200572
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