Unless by Carol Shields Paperback Book

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Rent Unless

Author: Carol Shields

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Harpercollins

Published: Jan 2006

Genre: Fiction - General

Retail Price: $16.99

Pages: 352

Synopsis

Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author of lightsummertime fiction, has always considered herself happy, even blessed. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah mysteriously drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner -- silent, with a sign around her neck bearing the word 'Goodness'.

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