The Immaculate Conception

In the isolated parish of Nativiti, 75 residents have recently died in a blaze. The survivors' fractured world is suffocatingly circumscribed by neighbors and the Church. Focusing on troubled bank clerk Remouald Tremblay and desperately unrequited Climentine Climent, Gaitan Soucy's acclaimed fourth novel explores the same ominously enchanted terrain as his award-winning "Vaudeville Soucy brilliantly illuminates the dark corners where ordinary people fear to look and reminds that for every moment of justice, there are numerous crimes that will remain forever secret.