The Black Notebook

In the heart of the Latin Quarter, meeting place of marginal characters of all sorts, Celine Poulin, who was born a midget, works the night shift at a cheap and popular restaurant. Hanging out with a theater company in her off hours, Celine sees opening before her a world where it is not only possible, but even desirable to pretend. When the director offers her a role in The Trojan Women, the die is cast. The Black Notebook, the first in a trilogy, is Celine's diary, filled with humor, passion, and rage, because she has her own dramatic story to tell, even if only to herself. With eloquence and compassion, Michel Tremblay celebrates how it is possible to embrace one's difference and to flourish.

"Playwright and novelist Michel Tremblay has always cut to the core of Quebec identity." --Montreal Mirror