It’s good. It’s good. I was totally immersed in Reta Winters’ world. The ‘I’ aka Reta aka the narrator is so compelling in telling the story. It is almost as if I’m contemplating with my own thoughts thinking about many things offered by this book.

Yes, this book offers so much that I learn so many things from parenting, writing to feminism. Carol Shields also has a very vast range of vocabulary. But it is very readable that I - as English is my 2nd language - don’t find it difficult to understand.

Unless follows Reta Winters, a writer, a wife and a mother, as she struggles with grief after her eldest daughter, Norah, suddenly withdraws from the world she lives in. She leaves her family, abandons her study and breaks up with her bf and later found sitting on a street corner of Toronto, wearing a sign that reads ‘goodness’ and begging.

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