The novel “Bondrée” is set in the summer of 1967 by a lake where vacationers gather. This small summer community is bilingual—those from Quebec speak French, while those from the U.S. speak English. Despite the language barrier, they are united by a shared tragedy that disrupts the carefree, beautiful, reckless, and still childish lives of the teenagers. After the novel’s publication, André A. Michaud was nicknamed “the Proust of thrillers.”