# Unless

**Author(s):** Carol Shields
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (0 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/unless/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, psychological-thriller, domestic-thriller
**Pages:** 281
**Publisher:** ISIS Large Print
**Published:** Wed Jan 01 2003 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780753168493
**ISBN-10:** 0753168499
**ASIN:** B0DVBL912R
**Amazon categories:** Literature & Fiction > Literary
**Amazon binding:** $54.49
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/unless

## 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][1])


  [1]: http://www.carol-shields.com/unless.html

## SageChimp reader verdict

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 0
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
- **Machine-readable:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/unless/verdict.json

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