Street of Riches

Semiautobiographical and universal in appeal,Street of Richesis about a young girl's growing up in a suburb of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Here is Christine, the perceptive narrator ofThe Road Past Altamont(also a Bison Book), awakening to natural and sometimes terrifying beauty, to family history, to the nuances of social life, to sexuality, to selfhood. A mother's romantic yearning for freedom, a father's roving career as an immigration officer, a beautiful sister's early demise, a host of other in very human situationsall contribute to the way Christine will view the world as a writer.

Gabrielle Roy has been called the Canadian Willa Cather because of their affinity in style and theme. Street of Riches won both the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the French Prix Duvernay.