Marie-Lumière
By: Lucie Pagé
Publisher: Libre expression
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: fre
ISBN-13: 9782764814482
Subjects: Physicians; Fiction; Medicinal plants; Indigenous peoples
Description: Marie-Jeanne saw the light in the living room go out. Louis would not come looking for her. He hadn't been doing it for some time. She was losing him. She grabbed her cell phone and called Sofia, the one who knew all about her. - Sofia. I am exhausted. I hit rock bottom. Did you say that ... that you could help me differently? - Yes indeed. - It's time. Born to a Mohawk mother, Dr. Marie-Jeanne Richard is exasperated. After thirty years of therapy and antidepressants, she still does not feel free from her shame of herself, nor from the trauma of being sixteen. Her husband, Louis, and her osteopath friend Sofia convince her to try an ancient medicinal plant from the Amazon. Marie-Jeanne will therefore participate in an ayahuasca ceremony offered by shamans from Brazil and South Africa, in the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatake. It is then that she will see the light and set out to build a bridge between indigenous medicinal plants and Western medicine. -- Provided by publisher.