A review by ergative
Unless by Carol Shields

4.0

I don't really have the vocabulary to evaluate literary fiction. This felt like a flabby sack of introspection about a writer who's trying to write a novel while worrying about her daughter (and had a lot of very early 2000s thoughts about Women In Society) . . . and yet I really enjoyed it. Especially starting about halfway through, as the flabby sack revealed itself to have a thematic structure, whose shape and coherence became clearer and more elegant up to the last page.