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The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction

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The Stone Diaries, an Old Familiar

Posted by Aruna at December 9, 2020 in editor's choice &reviews &the literary lounge

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    Eating was as close to heaven as my mother ever came … And almost as heavenly as the eating was the making – how she gloried in it. Every last body on this earth has a particular notion of paradise, and this was hers, standing in the murderously hot back kitchen of her … Continue readings →

Tags : Canadian women writers, Carol Shields, Margaret Atwood, North American women writers, The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, the ordinary woman novel, The Pulitzer Prize, The Stone Diaries, World Editions Carol Shields

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