We could not translate Helene Laberge's article, L'Ange de pierre: du défi à l'abandon. This novel deserves a place in a site on belonging. We dream of an essay whose title could be: Stone Angel or the tragedy of the nursing home for the elderly.

"Laurence's triumph is in her evocation of Hagar at ninety. . . . We sympathize with her in her resistance to being moved to a nursing home, in her preposterous flight, in her impatience in the hospital. Battered, depleted, suffering, she rages with her last breath against the dying of the light. The Stone Angel is a fine novel, admirably written and sustained by unfailing insight."—Granville Hicks, Saturday Review