Morel

Born during the Great Depression, Jean-Claude Morel is an ordinary Montreal construction worker who broke his body to build his city, digging its métro tunnels, and pouring the concrete to shape the highways weaving through its downtown core. But progress comes at a cost: neighbourhoods have been razed, streets wiped off the map, and Morel's family is ultimately expropriated by his own contribution to the city's gentrification. A profoundly human portrait of the Faubourg m'lasse?a destroyed and now forgotten borough in Montreal's east end?by one of Québec?s most celebrated writers.