Carol Shields
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Novelist Reta Winter's idyllic life is shattered when her eldest daughter abandons her life to sit on a gritty street corner with a sign reading "GOODNESS" around her neck, a situation that prompts Reta to uncover what drove her daughter to her new existence.
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A woman returns home—and rediscovers her past
Charleen is a divorcee in her mid-thirties, eking out a living as a poet and part-time assistant for an obscure scientific journal. Although she is quick to count her blessings—a son whom she loves, a blossoming relationship with a man, and friends who care about her—Charleen wonders how her life turned out the way it did. Is she a failure? Or is she still struggling to escape