Interview with Irena Karafilly in the Montreal Gazette: Learn more about the story behind The House on Selkirk Avenue

Ian McGillis interviews Irena Karafilly in the Montreal Gazette:

“Set in Montreal in 1998, The House on Selkirk Avenue finds its heroine Kate looking back nearly 30 years to the unresolved end of a relationship she had with Guillaume, an aspiring classical musician … The novel’s historical dimension – the events of October 1970 play a crucial part – provides an added undercurrent, investing the narrative with a set of loaded questions: What happened to the revolution? Furthermore, what happens to old revolutionaries? Reading Karafilly’s account, we can better understand how a generation of young Québécois were politicized and even radicalized – even when, as in the case of Guillaume, they had been essentially apolitical.”

Read the full interview here: “Montreal author Irena Karafilly goes home again“