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UnlessA Tale of Rich SorrowBy"Unless you're lucky, unless you're healthy, fertile, unless you're loved and fed, unless you're offered what others are offered, you go down in the darkness, down to despair." Carol Shield's latest novel tells the story of Reta Winters, a woman who has reason to be content. She has a loving relationship with her father and is the mother of three young daughters. She is a budding novelist with promise. But when her daughter Norah runs away, Reta's world is suddenly and instantly shattered. Norah becomes a mute and spends her days on the street corners of Toronto, begging for money, a sign reading GOODNESS around her neck. Goodness: is something that Reta must grapple to understand in the midst of this moment of inexplicable loss, confusion and sorrow. Reta uses her wit to fight against the forces that have pulled her daughter down into a world of poverty and loneliness. Shields' novel is a richly passionate work that threads together a poignant tale of anger, sorrow and humor. (April 2003, Vintage Canada) Publication Date: 2003-08-03 |