My Evangeline

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Reviews

Eighteen is a confusing age, to be sure...The style of the novel is poetic, bordering on shamanic. Beautiful, raw, romantic and surreal--without falling into trite young adult fantasy - Boston Athenaeum 

..exquisite prose, a beautifully-executed structure and echos from French-speaking Canada’s turbulent past demanded that I slow down and savor this gem of a book...and to note My Evangeline as “highly recommended” while flagging Heidi Legg as an author to follow - www.readerunboxed.com

 It challenges me to look to different genres where I find gems like this... A book I truly enjoyed and I suspect would be especially good for lover's of Longfellow's heroine - www.brokenteepee.com

I loved the way she drew parallels between Eve and Evangeline, and I loved the excerpts interspersed throughout the text. What a cool idea for a novel: create a character with the same name and home as the romantic figure, then give her a metaphorically similar life, all the while quoting Longfellow. Brilliant! - www.thebluebookcase.blogspot.com

Back Cover

Meet willful, irreverent heroine Eve LeBlanc -- a twenty-first-century incarnation of the Acadian heroine of Longfellow’s great epic poem, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie. 

Brimming with irreverence, young Eve LeBlanc finds her fate shaped by political strife in Quebec and the inexorable lure of romantic love.  As Quebec votes on the 1995 referendum for independent statehood, eighteen-year-old Eve, a promising artist, must choose between the American man she loves, powerful family ties, and her close friendship with a key figure in Quebec’s sovereignty movement as well as its suspiciously narrow defeat. 

This eloquent, beautifully crafterd debut brings French Acadian history and Longfellow's famous Acadian heroine back to life amid vibrant scenes of daily life in the remote fishing town of Shediac, New Brunswick, Canada and the Montreal art scene at the time of the 1995 referendum.