Such a Good Education



by France Théoret
translated by Luise von Flotow

ISBN 9781897151488 | 5.125" x 7.625" | TPB with French Flaps | $21
Categories:Fiction - Literary, Translations

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Synopsis

Such a Good Education traces the formative teenage years of Evelyne, in 1950s Montreal. Born into a culturally destitute environment, raised in an economically disadvantaged family, and taught at a traditional Catholic day school, her mother proudly asserts that all of this adds up to "une belle education."

When Evelyne ends up a barmaid in her parents’ hotel, she discovers just how wrong her mother is, and how much suffering is enabled by silence and denial. Such a Good Education is a scathing critique of traditional values, exposing the ignorance and poverty that troubled many French-Canadian families during the mid- twentieth century.
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