Sandrine's parents are dead--or they?re about to be. Her father, certainly; her mother, not quite yet. Alone and suffering from an incurable disease, the eleven-year-old girl finds companionship in her doctor, Tiresias, who morphologically changes sex in unpredictable ways and seemingly without anyone noticing. The Neptune Room, a melancholic tale about the mysteries of identity and the power dynamics associated with it, opens a door unto a universe of agonies: the long agony of an entire civilization and, microscopically, the spectrum of pain experienced by a young girl and those around her. Voicing anguish and perpetual mourning, The Neptune Room is a poetic novel, at once artful and compassionate, kaleidoscopic in its chronology, and resoundingly sombre. It is about change, great and small, and all the little deaths along the way--both public and private. It embodies a puncto reflexionis--a turning point piecing together the tender, terrible, unmistakable puzzle that is life. Praise for Readopolis, winner of the 2017 Governor General's Literary Award for Translation: "This is a book for book lovers." &mdashPublishers Weekly "Readopolis is a stylistically ebullient interrogation of the effect that literature has on the readers who consume it." --Quill and Quire