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One fateful day in the winter of 1946, a boy in the village of Sainte-Justine, Quebec, opened his Eaton\\u2019s package to find, instead of a coveted Montreal Canadiens jersey, the dreaded blue of the Toronto Maple Leafs. That despised hockey sweater was destined for literary, if not sports, fame.

That boy became author Roch Carrier, who has published some thirty books, run for political office, and headed numerous government agencies, including the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Library of Canada. But it was the NFB\\u2019s 1980 film adaptation The Sweater, lushly and wittily animated by Sheldon Cohen, that established Carrier\\u2019s reputation as a writer.

Joined by Montreal novelist and hockey enthusiast Maxime Raymond Bock\\u2014author most recently of Morel (2021)\\u2014Aaron and Naomi revisit Carrier\\u2019s story, which for a time graced Canada\\u2019s five-dollar bill. What\\u2019s been gained, lost and tweaked in translation? How does the tale reveal the tensions between Quebec and English Canada, as well as its author\\u2019s political sympathies? And why don\\u2019t parents ever understand your fashion choices?

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