A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 TORONTO BOOK AWARD
“My mother is an artist and I am a liar. Or, if I scratch the surface, my mother is a sick woman and I am an actress . . .”
Justine feels uneasy in her marriage, her theatre career and her relationship with her estranged mother, a famous painter. An intuitive and uncanny mimic, distinguished by a pronounced scar across her forehead (the result of a childhood accident), Justine has made acting the centre of her life since she was a teenager, but lately her outwardly charmed life in Toronto has begun to ring false. After a disastrous audition in London, England, a chance encounter with a stranger leads to an unorthodox business proposition that would allow Justine to abandon the world she knows indefinitely. As the complications and contradictions of leaving a life behind swell to the point of crisis, Justine must confront the collateral damage of a traumatic, long-repressed past.
In psychologically astute prose full of provocative insights, My Face in the Light is a piercing, poignant novel about truth in art and identity. It’s the story of a young woman owning up to the lies she’s fallen in love with, and figuring out if she can still recognize herself when she finally lets them go.
- ISBN10 073527763X
- ISBN13 9780735277632
- Publish Date 12 April 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint Knopf Canada
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 312
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/isbn/9780735277632