Used Book – Juliette Pomerleau - Elle Readers' Grand Prize 1990, Yves Beauchemin

Despite her 330 pounds, Juliette Pomerleau reigns with astounding energy over a small world of droll and colourful tenants: a visionary dentist, a one-legged blackbird, a musician from Central Europe, a detective... And now she's off to find her niece, who has left her with her twelve-year-old son Denis. But her immense love for others has a virtue: it's contagious. So we share her sorrows and joys... and we turn the pages of a spirited, funny, moving novel, told with all the Québécois verve of Yves Beauchemin.