One eRead Canada 2025: Valid by Chris Bergeron

This month, 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 70-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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Borrow Your Copy of Valid from the FVRL Digital Collection

From April 1 through April 30, 2025, you'll be able to download Valid as an ebook (in English) or audiobook (in French) with no holds, no waitlists, via:

• FVRL OverDrive
• the Libby app

Join the Conversation

Join the Facebook group and follow One eRead Canada on Instagram @OneeReadCanada to chat about the book with other people across Canada who are also reading Valid.

There will also be two online events scheduled during the month: Stay tuned for links and info!

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.