San Antonio College Library

In 1940, while war swirls in Europe, a working-class family in the Saint-Henri neighborhood of Montréal struggles to make ends meet.

A searing novel about memory, betrayal, and redemption--from the acclaimed and bestselling Russell Banks. At the center of Foregone is famed Canadian American leftist documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife, one of sixty thousand draft evaders and deserters who fled to Canada to avoid serving in Vietnam. Fife, now in his late seventies, is dying of cancer in Montreal and has agreed to a final interview in which he is determined to bare all his secrets...