Brian Crombie Radio Hour - Epi 447 - Forgotten Girls with Joanna Goodman
Jul 29, 2021 ·
50m 41s
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Brian Crombie speaks to Joanna Goodman who is an author of the bestselling novels The Forgotten Daughter, The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Finishing School. What was conceived as...
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Brian Crombie speaks to Joanna Goodman who is an author of the bestselling novels The Forgotten Daughter, The Home for Unwanted Girls and The Finishing School. What was conceived as a story inspired by her mother’s Montreal youth in a mixed French-English, Catholic-Protestant household evolved organically into a bigger canvas that takes in one of the darkest chapters in Quebec’s history: the Duplessis government’s 1950s conversion of church-run orphanages in the province into mental institutions in order to qualify for more funding from the federal government, a move that effectively reclassified thousands of healthy children as patients.
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