A review by persephen
Unless by Carol Shields

challenging emotional informative inspiring reflective sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

I read this book for my degree, and as majority of the books that this certain teacher lectures about, this one was also an immediate favourite of mine. The narration was very well done that I did not even realize the narration's time was catching up to us as the narration progressed. I was so caught up to reading it that, at the end, rather than reading it as a book I was to write an essay on, I read it as a book I read in my free time. It deals with grief, growth with grief and in it's final chapter, when the narrator answers the long-asked question, I was in tears.