Avril's mixed Québécois parentage
The Moms’s mother had been ethnic Québecois, her father Anglo-Canadian.
Context
Avril's own parentage, on the political side: "The Moms's mother had been ethnic Québecois, her father Anglo-Canadian." Avril's own parentage straddles the very fault line the theme runs on — ethnic Québécois mother, Anglo-Canadian father — the internal Québec/Anglophone division (n110's "Nous v. La Plupart") written into her ancestry. (Her "ethnic Canadian's horror of fluorescent light" and the family-system are family-hamlet's; landed here is the Québécois-parentage political datum.)