num_pages: 181
description: Judith Gill's world is shaped by the actions of those around her. As a biographer, she spends her days analyzing the minutiae of past lives. As a mother, she is perplexed by her children's developing lives. As a wife, she struggles to sympathize with and support a man who sometimes acts like a stranger. Her own life recedes, overshadowed by the urge to observe and understand the people she encounters. Yet, in this lovingly documented year of a woman's life, Judith is revealed to herself; a person with desires, passions, and faults; with instincts that are sometimes right and often wrong. And it is through the very observations she can't help but make that Judith finds her place in the as translator and celebrant of life's small - and very important - ceremonies.
language: English
title: Small Ceremonies
titlecomplete: Small Ceremonies
genres: American, Books About Books, Novels, Family, Romance, 20th Century, Literature, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 1159
places: Ontario
awards: awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Canadian Authors Association Award
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books