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by Carol Shields
Taste attributes: dramapsychologicalfresh & originalheavyrealisticenclosedemotive & stirringcomplex relationshiptroubled leadshuman spirit/resilience/survival
Boxlist takeExpect a moving, realistic novel, fresh rather than familiar. Best if you like real life over fantasy.
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Pace: balanced · Originality: fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: true to life · Story: balanced · Structure: balanced · Look: balanced · Scale: confined · Emotional punch: stirringHow we score
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4.0 / 5
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About This Book
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.
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- Author
- Carol Shields
- Published
- 2002
- Pages
- 291
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- Source
- Open Library
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