![]() Early in the novel, Florentine meets a man named Jean Levesque at the diner where she works long shifts. Roy casts the struggle of Florentine’s family against the wider norms of poverty and unjust suffering during World War II, showing how, despite these challenges, individuals strove to make opportunities for themselves to rise into the middle class. Florentine works for pennies in order to help her family subsist. ![]() When one of Florentine’s brothers, Daniel, gets leukemia, the family is unable to pay for treatment. Their poverty becomes so severe that several children go without basic necessities like shoes, and cannot attend school. Florentine’s entire family is frequently without work, putting her and her eleven other young siblings in dire straits. First published as Bonheur d’Occasion, or Secondhand Happiness, it follows a poor waitress named Florentine Lacasse who lives in Montreal during World War II. ![]() The Tin Flute is a 1945 novel by Gabrielle Roy. ![]()
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