My Face in the Light
NAMED A "MOST ANTICIPATED" BOOK BY THE CBC AND THE GLOBE AND MAIL
“Brilliant, provocative, and moving." —Johanna Skibsrud, Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists
"A novel like cut crystal." —Jordan Tannahill, Giller Prize-nominated author of The Listeners
“My mother is an artist and I am a liar. Or, if I scratch the surface, my mother is a sick woman and I am an actress . . . "
Justine feels uneasy in her marriage, her theatre career and her relationship with her estranged mother, a famous painter. An intuitive and uncanny mimic, distinguished by a pronounced scar across her forehead (the result of a childhood accident), Justine has made acting the centre of her…