Club Protocol Release: The Box Garden KINDLE MOBI by Carol Shields H.A.

The Box Garden by literary award winning author Carol Shields:
Charleen Forrest's husband has left her. Gone, not only from her own life, but apparently off the face of the earth. Charleen is left with his name and their marvellously uncomplicated son, Seth. She also has a fair talent for poetry, and a job on The National Botanical Journal which brings her in touch with the mysterious Brother Adam - a man with a contagious passion for silence and grass.
The Box Garden celebrates Charleen's resourcefulness, creativity and tenacity in the face of little money and few resources. Her piercing gifts of observation are wonderfully balanced with her intermittent bouts of all-too-familiar feelings of incompetence that are as tenderly observed as her gifts for love and survival. Even when events run out of hand, the bills pile up and family, banktellers, ex-husband, landladies, even bus drivers act as if she is inconsequential or in the way and should just move along. Looking for love is not very successful for Charleen; the men she meets are "on the make" and just want her to lie back and accept (this is what you need, baby!). In spite of it all, her resourcefulness is a delight; her uncanny observations and surprising irony reveal a witty, wry edge that is apt to make you laugh out loud.

"The novel's protagonist, Charleen Forrest, is an appealing combination of common sense and irrepressible idealism, qualities which her status as a single mother and low-paid wage earner put to frequent test. Shields doesn't exaggerate or sentimentalize these difficulties, but simply describes them in straightforward, low-key prose that brings us to the vital center of Charleen's emotional life."
- Toronto Star

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