As Good a Place as Any: Volume 225

A teenaged refugee chases stardom but finds her purpose in Canada's abortion-rights movement. Fleeing Chile after the 1973 coup, sixteen-year-old Paulina and her older brother Ernesto settle in Toronto. While Ernesto dreams of a glorious homecoming, Paulina embraces her liberation from the conventional life expected of her back home. Yet despite landing her first big role on a popular children's cartoon, and her first girlfriend, she cannot escape survivor's guilt. Haunted by the death of a childhood friend, she joins the underground struggle for reproductive freedom. But when a fellow exile pleads for her help terminating a pregnancy, Paulina's public and private selves threaten to collide.Author: Rebecca PapucaruPublisher: Guernica EditionsPublished: 03/01/2025Pages: 200Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 7.98h x 5.08w x 0.84dISBN: 9781771839396About the AuthorRebecca Papucaru's debut collection, The Panic Room (Nightwood Editions) was awarded the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literar