The Republic of Love

Name: The Republic of Love
Author: Carol Shields

by Carol Shields

Two people write letters that force them to confront their lives

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About the author

Carol Shields

American-Canadian novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Orange Prize for The Stone Diaries. Her quietly radical fiction explores the lives of ordinary women with formal invention. She was one of the most admired novelists in North America.

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The Stone DiariesWoman's life emerges through unconventional narrative of documents and memories
UnlessWoman grapples with estrangement from her daughter through letters
Larry's PartyMan learns to live with loss and reinvention at midlife
Small CeremoniesWoman navigates marriage, motherhood, and identity in suburban Toronto