Haven

by Mishka Lavigne, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Neil Blackadder (Translator)

Winner of the 2019 Governor-General’s Award for French-language Drama Strangers Elsie and Matt are both feeling great voids in their lives. Elsie, a literature professor, is grieving her famous novelist mother’s tragic death. Matt, a city engineer, is trying to regain childhood memories from living in war-torn Yugoslavia. When a sudden sinkhole in front of Elsie’s apartment building swallows a car that happens to contain a copy of Elsie’s mother’s novel, their paths cross, and the two are quickly drawn to each other’s search for fulfillment. Haven is a beautiful portrait of how certain life events can be incredibly isolating, and what happens when people come into our lives when we need them most.

96 pages, Paperback

Published January 30, 2024

About the author

Mishka Lavigne est dramaturge et traductrice de théâtre. Elle est membre du CEAD (Centre des auteurs dramatiques) et de Playwrights’ Workshop Montréal ainsi qu’une des membres fondatrices des Poids Plumes, un collectif d’auteurs de la région d’Ottawa-Gatineau.