num_pages: 213
description: The story of a woman dancing on the edge of a difficult life.Ever since her husband left her—seemingly vanishing into thin air—Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But when her estranged mother remarries, prompting an unplanned reunion, Charleen finds herself moving out of her familiar existence.A dazzling counterpoint to Shields’s debut novel, Small Ceremonies, imbued with her scathing wit and dead-on observations, The Box Garden is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who finds transformation—and happiness—where she least expects it.
language: English
title: The Box Garden
titlecomplete: The Box Garden
genres: Modern, Feminism, Adult Fiction, Fiction, Novels, Family, Literary Fiction, American, Canadian Literature, Canada
ratings_count: 1177
publisher: Penguin Books