Another novel series by Michel Tremblay, yipee! As with the "Chronique du Plateau Mont-Royal," this trilogy deals with characters living and/or working around the Boulevard St. Laurent in Montreal. This trilogy focuses on a single character, Celine, a little person fighting for independence from her family in the 1960s. In the first book she's working as a waitress at a greasy spoon inhabited by the demi-monde at night and by art students during the day. When one of the students enlists her to prepare an audition scene for a little theatre production of "The Trojan Women," it sets Celine on a new direction and a collision course with the alcoholic mother who can't forgive her daughter for having been born with a disability. One character from the Chronique, Edouard (the Duchess of Langeais), plays a key role in Celine's character growth.