description: 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: carol-shields.com
language: English
title: Unless
titlecomplete: Unless
genres: Literature, Literary Fiction, Womens, Novels, Fiction, Adult Fiction, Canadian Literature, Canada, Contemporary, Family
ratings_count: 16322
places: Canada
awards: awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Shortlist, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Scotiabank Giller Prize, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize
publisher: Turtleback Books