Chiac in books ??! // reading local authors

Being a french Canadian, my province of New-Brunswick have about three different dialect, depending on your region:

→ « Brayon » on the North Ouest, aswell as “old french/acadian” in North East– both so similar to the Quebec’s neighbor within our mix of french, english, aswell as old french/acadian words.. however the pronounciation of some words are a bit different on the Brayons side.

→ Lastly, because of everything being mostly english surrounding them, « Chiac » in the Sud East. I’s say this is the most outstanding out of the three, being originally from the North East myself, it took me quite a while to get used to how they spoke here x3

Although we all know that i’ve been reading in french only for quite a good while before I could expend to reading in english only a few years go, I didn’t read french books from my province. I would actually mostly pick up “made in Quebec” books instead, or Europe French. (we’re not counting translations from english novels)

The main reason for that being that I was under the impression that authors from here only wrote either children books or historical fiction. While iknow I need to expend my reading for more middle grade, I wanna point out here that I do mean children books way above middle grade.. which ain’t quite my jam. As for historical fiction.. this is a big nope for me, even if they mostly all includes our ancestor’s deportation in 1755.

I found this book while browsing the apple book catalog section.. which really only attracted me because of the name, to begin with 🤣 translating to “Dick pics under the stars” – after laughing about that quite alot, I didn’t bought it.. only to cross it in our bookstore and I just had to take it.

It’s the story of a Gay man moving back to his hometown (Moncton) after studying in Quebec to pay back his loans by working in a call center. Leaving a “no-title relationship” behind, moving in with his sister & two nephews. Staying in touch, he remains unsure of what their relationship means.. nor of what he should do about his life.

I was so happy to have found this !! Not only is it such a nice feeling to *know* what the town looks like, as it’s mine aswell, it’s also hilarious and surprising to see our chiac being actually written in a novel.

Absolutely makes me wanna explore more novels from my province; as i’m now aware of how wrong I was.. we do have something more than children’s book & historical fiction, I just need to find them! Starting by this author’s other books- I quite like his writting & humor in this one.

Do you read books from your local authors?