Street of Riches

Semiautobiographical and universal in appeal Street of Riches is about a young girl's growing up in a suburb of Winnipeg Manitoba. Here is Christine the perceptive narrator of The 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 situations?all contribute to the way Christine will view the world as a writer.