The Polished Hoe
Austin Clarke
The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke is an acclaimed literary masterpiece celebrating major critical honors and timeless storytelling.
Read Time: ~4.9 hr
Unless
by Carol Shields (2002)
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. 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. ([source][1]) [1]:
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraContemporary
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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