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Song for My Father" dramatises the complex losses in the life of a child whose parents fail to protect her from their own rage and sense of failure. The novel's rhythms are at times deliberately fragmented and halting, mirroring the broken and hesitant spirit of its narrator. Helpless in the face of her parents' battles, Sarah turns to fantasy for escape. Their persistent conflicts, however, continue to shape her responses to life As an adult,...

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A homeless woman grieves her son's death. A drug addict breaks through his withdrawal and mourns his losses. An adolescent girl realises that she must mother her mother. This collection of stories sheds light on the inner lives of the lonely, the alienated, and the dispossessed. Whether the narrators are adolescents or adults, theirs are stories of recognition and acknowledgment recognition of the unconscious self and acknowledgment of the rep...

Set in Montreal in the early 1980s, Piece Work is a full-length play about six women who work together in a clothing factory and are paid by the piece. Unable to confront the factory owner who exploits them, the women turn on each other instead, venting their frustrations and hostility, giving way to inner-directed rage. When one of the workers has an accident and is taken into hospital, the women begin to channel their energies towards positi...