It happens that I am going through a period of great unhappiness and loss just now.
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Unless
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by Carol Shields
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All her life, it seems to Reta Winters, she 'has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness. She has a loving husband, three bright daughters and supportive friends, and is experiencing growing success as a writer and translator. Then her eldest daughter suddenly withdraws from the world, abandoning university, family and loving boyfriend to sit on a street corner, uncommunicative but for a sign around her neck bearing one word, "GOODNESS". Reta is lead into a desperate search for the causes of their daughter's retreat. No obvious explanation appears to fit. Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in this journey through the life of an unforgettable woman.
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Unless: A Novel
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Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.
Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields’s fiction.
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