Friday, September 21, 2012

Monday & Tuesday Night Bookgroup: Unless


Summary: Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. 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.


What I thought: Ugh. Very slow and boring and repetitive. This was this massive build up to the issue (which I didn't pick by the way) but really I wouldn't waste your time.

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