<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> No Crystal Stair is a novel, published in 1997, by Canadian author Mairuth Sarsfield . </P> <P> No Crystal Stair was one of the selected novels in the 2005 edition of Canada Reads, where it was championed by Olympic fencer Sherraine MacKay . The title is a reference to the line "Life for me ain't been no crystal stair" Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son ." </P> <P> No Crystal Stair is a coming - of - age story set in the Little Burgundy district of Montreal during the 1940s . </P>

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