Full name: Small Ceremonies: A Novel

Author: Carol Shields Year: 1976 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Award winners Culture: Canada Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon Google Books eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140251456 9781480459564 0140251456 1480459569

What is the matter with me, I wonder. Why am I always the one who watches? Judith Gill lives with her husband, son, and daughter in a nice house in the suburbs of Ontario. She has carved out a niche as a respected biographer. Her universe is shaped and bounded by the lives around her, from her family to the subjects of her books. She finds herself in the background of her life, but she hungers to tell stories of her own. In this witty, nuanced novel about art, life, love, and fiction, Carol Shields reveals Judith to readers and to herself'€”a woman with bold emotions, powerful instincts, and a knack for observing the small ceremonies that give our lives meaning. Similar books: The Stone Diaries by Carol Shields Unless by Carol Shields Larry's Party by Carol Shields The Box Garden by Carol Shields Bear by Marian Engel The Underpainter by Jane Urquhart Leaven of Malice by Robertson Davies Joshua Then and Now by Mordecai Richler Medicine River by Thomas King The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy Happenstance by Carol Shields A Good House by Bonnie Burnard Headhunter by Timothy Findley The Republic of Love by Carol Shields Who Has Seen the Wind by W. O. Mitchell Swann by Carol Shields A Map of Glass by Jane Urquhart The Cure For Death By Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz Solomon Gursky Was Here by Mordecai Richler Remembering the Bones by Frances Itani