Title: A foreign country
Description: "A young man comes of age in Montreal's Greek community, where he discovers the world of literature. Determined to escape the common fate of immigrant children, he leaves to pursue a doctorate. But the tragic pull of his family - his mother's mental deterioration, his father's physical decay - conspire against his hopes. He ends up running and living above the family business: precisely the fate he'd hoped to avoid. A vivid depiction of Montreal's Mile End in the seventies and eighties, by which time Greeks and Italians had replaced the Jewish community of Mordecai Richler's era."--
Subjects: Greeks, Fiction, Parent and adult child, Family-owned business enterprises, Scholars
Places: Québec (Province), Montréal, Mile-End (Montréal, Québec), Québec