Dickens is well known for his shining his light on the working class of London. But Gabrielle Roy did the same for the working class of Montreal. The drawback with Dickens is that he never bothered or even thought about women; perhaps because she was a woman Roy does. The focus of the story is on th...
So this is one of those largely forgotten books that you read and then think, “why the hell aren’t more people reading this”. It’s more than a coming of age story. It’s about life. Go find it.
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