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• Booker Prize Nominee (2002)
• Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Shortlist (2003)
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2002)
• Scotiabank Giller Prize Nominee (2002)
• Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize (2003)

Reta Winters, 44 years of age, has started a new sort of life. She has discoverd the meaning of loss for the first time.For all of her days, Reta has enjoyed the useful monotony of happiness: a loving family, good friends, growing success as a writer of light fiction, novels 'for summertime'. This placid existence cracks open one fearful day when her beloved eldest daughter, Norah, drops out to sit on a gritty street corner, silent but for the sign around her neck that reads'GOODNESS.' Reta's search for what drove her daughter to such a desperate statement turns into an unflinching and surprisingly funny meditation on where we find meaning and hope.Warmth, passion and wisdom come together in Shields's remarkably supple prose. Unless, a harrowing but ultimately consoling story of one family's anguish and healing, proves her mastery of extraordinary fictions about ordinary life.--back cover

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