Elvie, Girl Under Glass

Elvie, Girl Under Glass tells the poignant story of a child transplanted from a sunny mountain village in Italy to Montreal, Quebec, in 1952.

Raised in a household ruled by a cruel, controlling father, her desire to free herself from his oppression mirrors the French-language majority’s battle to wrest control of the province’s economic resources from the English-speaking elite.

Unlike some of the separatists who eventually turn violent, Elvie responds to her father’s growing strictures by ...