Talk about missing the point.

Celebrated Quebec author Kim Thúy has emitted a cri de coeur with her first foray into theatre, the autobiographically inspired play Ám, at Théâtre du Nouveau Monde through Oct. 8, and her public statements around it.

“J’ai mal à mon Québec,” she said, speaking to Radio-Canada last week. Thúy has described her pain as “a real heartbreak” about the way the province and its politicians are scapegoating immigrants with increasing regularity, making them responsible for all society’s ills.

“My heart can’t take it anymore,” her main character Ành (played by Cynthia Wu-Maheux) laments in the piece. Thúy said she told her partner she “really want(s) to leave” the province and move somewhere she isn’t so deeply attached to.

It was only a matter of days before two of Le Journal de Montréal’s more prominent columnists demonstrated exactly what Thúy was referring to by attacking her for speaking out.

On Tuesday, Sophie Durocher mocked the author........

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