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In a moment of self-absorption, Clara Purdy's life takes a sharp left turn when she crashes into a beat-up car carrying an itinerant family of six. The Gage family had been travelling to a new life in Fort McMurray, but bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer rather than remnants of the accident. Recognizing their need as her responsibility, Clara tries to do the right thing and moves the children, husband, and horrible grandmother into her own house--then has to cope with the consequences of practical goodness.
What, exactly, does it mean to be good? When is sacrifice merely selfishness? What do we owe in this life and what do we deserve? Marina Endicott looks at life and death through the compassionate lens of a born novelist: being good, being at fault, and finding some balance on the precipice.
About this Author
MARINA ENDICOTT's much-celebrated novel, Good to a Fault, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book, and was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her next, The Little Shadows, was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award and longlisted for the Giller Prize. The novel that followed, Close to Hugh, was also shortlisted for the GGLA and nominated for the Giller Prize. Her most recent novel, The Difference, was published to acclaim in Canada and the US (Norton). Endicott lived for many years in Edmonton, Alberta, and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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