On April 1, hundreds of participating Canadian public libraries will offer free, unlimited access to Valid by Chris Bergeron in eBook and Audiobook as part of One eRead Canada. Valid will be available in English and French without holds or waitlists throughout April 2025.
About Valid
Set in a disturbingly transfigured Montreal in the year 2050, Valid is a monologue delivered over the span of eight hours by Christelle, a seventy-year-old trans woman forced to live as a man in order to survive. Speaking to her captor, an ever–more powerful AI, she turns the tables and mounts her own revolution by showing her truest self. Part autofiction, part dystopic speculation on an all-too-possible future characterized by corporate power, ecological collapse, and political havoc, Valid is an ambitious work that is as much philosophical as it is confessional.
About Chris Bergeron
Chris Bergeron is diverse and fluid: after beginning a career in journalism and eventually winding up at the helm of the weekly cultural magazine Voir, she now dedicates her artistic vitality to Cossette, a leading global marketing agency.
She offers speaking engagements on leadership, diversity, inclusion, and trans rights.
Chris lives in Montreal.
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From April 1 through April 30, 2025, you'll be able to download Valid as an eBook or audiobook with no holds, no waitlists, via:
Join the Conversation
Join the Facebook group and the follow One eRead Canada on Instagram: OneeReadCanada to chat about the book with other people across Canada who are also reading Valid.
Attend the event
The author, Chris Bergeron, will sit down with Mattea Roache, CBC host of Bookends on April 23rd at 7 pm to discuss their book.
About One eRead Canada Launched in 2019, One eRead Canada is an annual initiative by the Canadian Urban Libraries Council (CULC) to promote digital reading through public libraries, while also raising awareness about issues that libraries face in providing access to eBooks and audiobooks
Chosen by Chris Bergeron, a list of favourite titles and Valid readalikes.
