A teenaged refugee chases stardom but finds her purpose in Canada's abortion-rights movement. Fleeing Chile after the 1973 coup, sixteen-year-old Paulina and her older brother Ernesto settle in Toronto.

While Ernesto dreams of a glorious homecoming, Paulina embraces her liberation from the conventional life expected of her back home. Yet despite landing her first big role on a popular children's cartoon, and her first girlfriend, she cannot escape survivor's guilt.

Haunted by the death of a childhood friend, she joins the underground struggle for reproductive freedom. But when a fellow exile pleads for her help terminating a pregnancy, Paulina's public and private selves threaten to collide.

(From Guernica)

As Good a Place as Any is available in March 2025.

Rebecca Papucaru is a Montreal-based writer. Her poetry collection The Panic Room won the 2018 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry and was a finalist for the A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry, as well as longlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. Her work has appeared in publications including Grain, Event, The Dalhousie Review, and The New Quarterly. Her novella Yentas won The Malahat Review's 2020 Novella Prize. Her debut novel is As Good a Place as Any.