What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America

What Became of Them and Other Stories from Franco-America

Ledoux has woven a tapestry of vignettes all coming to a seam at self-reflection. 'What Became of Them' is a collection of short stories that spans a century of Franco America, its cultural mutations, and its burdening self-absorption. Ledoux finds a way to unite spousal estrangement, Catholic suppression, working-class embarrassment, and the tragedy of leaving things behind in a sometimes less-than-latent nostalgia for those things that could have been; he breaks it all down in his characters’ even stronger drive to move forward.
“Whenever I stopped using other people’s words,” Ledoux’s young seminarian character muses on prayer, “there was always a stillness, a withered silence.” Ledoux takes this point to heart and, in this collection, subverts it – breaking the withered silence with hopes and fears of a cultural sort little heard in literature.
“The artist is a priest,” says Ledoux’s same character: a priest anew. And so is Ledoux here, writing out prayers of a bold and freeing kind, in a language audible to a world in- and outside of Franco America. Contains the following stories: Germaine (also featured in Puckerbrush Review, le Canado-Americain, Le F.A.R.O.G. Forum, and "Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature")
What Became of Them
Desneiges
Dinora
The Life They Chose
My Call to be David
Need Not Apply
O, Canada!
Looking Back

Ledoux, Denis

Soleil Press

1988

English

Book

No

103

Lisbon Falls, Maine

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