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…
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April 4, 2023
Martha Schabas is a novelist and critic. Her first novel, Various Positions, was published in Canada, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. It was shortlisted for an Evergreen Fiction Award and named a book of the year by The Globe and Mail, Quill & Quire and NOW Magazine. She was The Globe and Mail’s dance critic from 2015-2020, where she also wrote about theatre and books. Her essays, arts criticism and short fiction have appeared in publications including The Walrus, Hazlitt, The New Quarterly and Dance Magazine.
My Face in the Light
Martha Schabas