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A real page turner, couldn't wait to find out the ending, and when I did, it reminded me...........never make assumptions! Great book, by a very talented and gifter writer.

Reta Winters is 44 years old. Suddenly her oldest daughter Norah decides to drop out of college and out of life in general to set on a street corner with a sign around her neck bearing the word "Goodness." The story is Reta's journey in understanding her daughter's world while keeping her other children, house, husband and job going.

I find Carol Shields to be a talented writer and her interweaving of the heroine's personal story with the characters in the book she is writing is masterful. The mystery of why her 19 year old daughter has chosen to live on the streets of Toronto kept me glued to this book to the last page. I highly recommend it.

Just couldn't get into it. Not my type I guess.

Deeply moving, particularly to a parent.