The Girl Who Was Saturday Night

Author/Guide: Heather O'Neill

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1970s, 1990s: Walk through two decades of chaos in Montreal…

ISBN: 978-1784290160
Genre: Fiction

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Twins Nicholas and Nouschka Tremblay have a father like no other. Étienne considers himself a bit of a French- Canadian Serge Gainsbourg. He is said to have a genius for the absurd but he’s known for his flirting, his squalor and he often winds up in prison.

All they remember growing up is the way Étienne dragged them onto one talk show after another but then as quick as a flash, would dump them on their grandfather

Now Étienne is washed up and the twins are making their own mess.

Nouschka is a bit of a child star herself, a high school drop out and now on the cusp of falling for an ex- convict. Is history about to repeat itself?

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Nouschka Tremblay is a Quebecois former child and former star Beauty Queen of Boulevard Saint-Laurent.

However Nouschka lives in a run down flat in a run down neighbourhood. Living with her grandfather and brother, Nouschka’s world is a sad and poor one. Far removed from that she thought she might have when growing up. She’s all adrift in a sea of hopelessness, on a boat without any sense of direction. Such a difficult childhood is leading to a directionless adulthood.

The background to the story is the referendum – whether to separate from Canada – which took place in 1995 . The social situation of chaos and confusion seems to mirror