Sadie X

Finalist for the 2025 Cole Foundation Prize for Translation

Finalist for the 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation

Having followed the brilliant virologist Régnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Régnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously,...