Thursday, Dec. 12, 2002
Unless by Carol Shields
Reta Winters is a middle-aged novelist in a comfy, middle-class marriage. From the outside, she has everything she should ever want. So why is her daughter panhandling on a streetcorner? Why is sorrow eating her up from the inside? The answers to these and other urgent questions can be found in this brief, bittersweet, and unforgettable novel about facing the tragedy of the ordinary with humor and courage.
(Fiction)