news | Wednesday September 16, 2020
We are so pleased to welcome Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny’s Mégantic, translated by W. Donald Wilson!
Mégantic is an exhaustively researched work of investigative journalism, in which Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny examines the causes and after-effects of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic rail disaster, which resulted in the deaths of forty-seven people and the complete destruction of the town’s downtown. Saint-Cerny reveals how the tragedy was not an accident, but rather was knowingly caused by powerful people and institutions far removed from the town itself. The fruit of five years of work and interviews with nearly a hundred people from various backgrounds, including victims and their relatives, Mégantic tells the story of the disaster in three acts – before, during, and after – in a scathing critique whose ultimate goal is to prevent the preventable.