writer
Nothing in Truth Can Harm Us
A modern reimagining of the Acadian folk tale Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — what if the events of the Acadian deportation were told through the lens of a family drama?
Nothing in Truth Can Harm Us follows a young Evangeline as she navigates a foreign city where political tensions are high. Meanwhile, a violent and coercive past that her aunt Mathilde has managed to keep secret now threatens to boil over.
Nothing in Truth Can Harm Us tells the story of three women struggling to repair bonds fractured by a decade-old tragedy. Eva is an 18-year-old who has dropped out of school and is working as a dishwasher in Montreal. Her aunt Maddie has reluctantly been her guardian for the last decade despite the anger she feels towards Eva's mother Gaby — who is an inmate in a women's jail. With Gaby's parole just weeks away, her sole focus is to find her daughter — as all three women try to escape the spectre of Eva's dead father Adam
