Monkey Boulevard

<p>A<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>s displaced persons after World War II the Piech Family chose not to return to their home in Poland but continued from an army camp in Italy to a Polish Dependents camp in England finally immigrating to Canada. Despite the tragic losses suffered during the war the author's parents begin life with hope in this new land. As a precocious five-year-old she adapts to living in the multi-ethnic borough of Ville Emard in Montreal. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She learns a new language experiences prejudice gets locked in a church develops a life-long friendship and spends evenings sitting with her father on the balcony observing the human traffic below their three-story tenement. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>There is humor in her perspective as she observes life from the margins tries to understand the confusing world of adults and works on a plan to one day be fully independent. </span></p><p> </p>