Join us on the 4th Thursday of each month from 5-6pm for the IWFC Calgary Chapter Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Book Club.

The next selection for IWFC Calgary's Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Book Club will be Unless by Carol Shields and will be hosted by Karen Prentice.

"Reta Winters has many reasons to be happy: Her three almost grown daughters. Her twenty-year relationship with their father. Her work translating the larger-than-life French intellectual and feminist Danielle Westerman. Her modest success with a novel of her own, and the clamour of her American publisher for a sequel. Then in the spring of her forty-fourth year, all the quiet satisfactions of her well-lived life disappear in a moment: her eldest daughter Norah suddenly runs from the family and ends up mute and begging on a Toronto street corner, with a hand-lettered sign reading GOODNESS around her neck.

GOODNESS. With the inconceivable loss of her daughter like a lump in her throat, Reta tackles the mystery of this message. What in this world has broken Norah, and what could bring her back to the provisional safety of home? Reta's wit is the weapon she most often brandishes as she kicks against the pricks that have brought her daughter down: Carol Shields brings us Reta's voice in all its poignancy, outrage and droll humour.

Piercing and sad, astute and evocative, full of tenderness and laughter, Unless will stand with The Stone Diaries in the canon of Carol Shields's fiction."

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November 28, 2024 - 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

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You may purchase a hard or digital copy here ​​or support your local bookstore or public library.

The book club is open to all members and having read the book is not a requirement for taking part in the conversation.

The book club is guided by Brenda Kenny and is held on the 4th Thursday of every month, September - November and January – June, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Meeting dates:

· September 26, 2024

· October 24, 2024

· November 28, 2024

· January 23, 2025

· February 27, 2025

· March 27, 2025

· April 24, 2025

· May 22, 2025

· June 26, 2025