Chronicles of the Plateau Mont Royal: The Fat Woman Next Door Is Pregnant (Paperback)

from Niecierpek

It is a beautiful spring day, May 2, 1942, in Montreal's working class quarter: Plateau Mont Royal. It's Saturday - the beginning of the weekend, and rue Mont-Royal is full of life. It is war in Europe and shortly after the conscription plebiscite (April 7) and all the women on the street are pre...

from LynnB

It's May 2, 1942 and seven women on rue Fabre in Montreal are pregnant, including the title character who is in her early 40s and six young wives. The main setting is the home of Victoire, who lives with her three grown children, two of whom are married and have, between them, four children. In w...

from lkernagh

The story covers the lives of various residents of la rue Mont-Royal over the course of one day - the second day of May in 1942. An interesting neighborhood that includes 7 pregnant women, one of them the 'fat woman' in her 40's that is, shockingly for the social norms of the time period, bearing...

from lkernagh

The story covers the lives of various residents of la rue Mont-Royal over the course of one day - the second day of May in 1942. An interesting neighborhood that includes 7 pregnant women, one of them the 'fat woman' in her 40's that is, shockingly for the social norms of the time period, bearing...