Deborah Ostrovsky is an editor and freelance writer who has written for the Globe and Mail, Maisonneuve, Lilith, the Montréal Gazette and montrealmagazine.ca, along with satire for McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Points in Case. She is currently writing about the Magdalen Islands and lives in Montréal with her family.
A group of university exchange students from France at the next table watch the entire interaction as if they were on a field trip for Lessons in North American Social Behaviour. They discuss the annoying aspects of the life they’re having here. Quebec is more American than they expected, they say. You can’t smoke in restaurants. The Québécois accent is drôle.
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