Alice Munro, acting, and one chance encounter: How Martha Schabas mined life and art for new novel My Face in the Light
Years ago, while visiting London to interview for a spot in the University of East Anglia’s Creative Writing program, novelist Martha Schabas was approached by a man on the train, who struck up a conversation with her. Why was she, a young Canadian woman, in London? Schabas explained her desire to move there for the MA program, along with the very real concerns of how to afford such a thing.
Fiction proved to be the best place to test out an agreement and its outcomes. In Schabas’s new novel,, a version of that proposal is offered and accepted by the character of Justine Weiss, a 29-year-old stage actor from Toronto who is ostensibly in London to audition for a prestigious Shakespeare apprenticeship. She walks out of her audition midspeech.
Justine is an attractively cryptic figure to follow through Schabas’s gracefully paced second novel. Brought up under the weight of her mother Rachel’s resolute certainty as an artist, Justine discovers early that she is an actor, able to mirror and mimic the people they observe on their walks around Camden TownIn vivid flashbacks, Justine embodies the women they see while interpreting text, Shakespeare in particular, as Rachel paints her.
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