Joanna Goodman explores Quebec’s long-running tensions. Joanna Goodman, whose worldview was shaped by experiencing both Quebec sovereignty referendums, has taken 20 years to bring that to her fiction in The Home for Unwanted Girls. Growing up in Montreal as the daughter of a French-Canadian mother and an English-speaking father, political tension was a constant in Joanna Goodman’s youth. “I had a wonderful upbringing, but it was always coloured by the politics,” she says.
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