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2000s: A novel about a novelist who lives in Toronto and whose daughter suddenly changes her lifestyle
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Reta Winters, 44-year-old successful author has always considered herself happy. That is, until her oldest daughter Norah drops out of college to become a panhandler on a Toronto street corner.
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This is tough environment to find yourself in – a mother suffering since her daughter has managed to drop out of college and life the kind of lifestyle that we never want our children to lead. Soon after finishing this book, the author herself died of breast cancer and some of the language testifies to the grief and language used to describe this kind of pain. When talking of her daughter decision to isolate herself from society – this change in her is described like so:
“It’s like a soft tumour, but exceptionally aggressive. Its tentacles have entered all the quadrants of her consciousness. This invasion happened fast, when no one was looking.”
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Author/Guide: Carol Shields Destination: Toronto Departure Time: 2000s
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