Bargain @ $2.99 for today only (Nov 26th) according to the newsletter from Open Road Media (couponable @ Kobo, should be available in all the standard stores, price good for US, geo-restricted as Random House still owns the rights in Canada and possibly other Commonwealth nations):
The Box Garden: A Novel by the late US-born Canadian-immigrant Pulitzer Prize & Governor General's Award-winner Carol Shields (
Wikipedia), her 1977 literary fiction novel.
The story of a woman dancing on the edge of a difficult life
Ever since her husband left her—seemingly vanishing into thin air—Charleen Forrest has supported herself and her fifteen-year-old son on what she earns as an obscure poet and part-time gofer for an even more obscure scientific journal. But when her estranged mother remarries, prompting an unplanned reunion, Charleen finds herself moving out of her familiar existence.
A dazzling counterpoint to Shields’s debut novel, Small Ceremonies, imbued with her scathing wit and dead-on observations, The Box Garden is an unforgettable portrait of a woman who finds transformation—and happiness—where she least expects it.