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Rainbow Street
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
Publisher: Richard Stanford
Published: Feb 23 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Set in post-WWII Montréal, Rainbow Street follows the intertwined lives of Adam Sand and his troubled young neighbor Nicholas Schlott. Their stories unfold against the backdrop of a neighbourhood of veterans' homes, each painted in a different bright colour by the veterans as their way of creating a new vibrant world after six years of the monotones of war, the street earning the nickname Rainbow Street. Beneath the colours lies a community scarred by trauma and loss.
From the moment the three-year old Nicholas arrives on Rainbow Street, without a name and without a past, he forms a bond with Adam who becomes a protective older brother figure. This friendship offers Nicholas a fragile lifeline in the midst of neglect and emotional upheaval. Their friendship endures throughout the twenty-year span of the novel as together they navigate through the tumultuous 60's.
Rainbow Street is more than neighbourhood; it is a metaphor of memory, and the redemptive power of art and human possibility.
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