“Rose-Anna was tugging at the edge of her apron with a tired, futile gesture she had never made in the past – the grandmother’s gesture.”

— Gabrielle Roy , book The Tin Flute

Source: The Tin Flute (1945), P.260

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French Canadian fiction writer 1909–1983

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