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Volkswagen Blues, by Jacques Poulin, follows Jack Waterman, a French Canadian writer, and La Grande Sauterelle, a young woman of French and Native American descent, on a cross-continent journey from Quebec to San Francisco, searching for Jack’s missing brother. Their road trip becomes a broader exploration of self-discovery, cultural identity, and historical reflection, mirroring Quebec’s cultural and political struggles. The novel addresses the massacre of Indigenous peoples.