A Happy Can Lit Discovery

I picked this up when it was free on Kindle as I knew Mary Walters to be an excellent blog writer. (Someone famous once said that a person who writes good letters is a good writer, and I have found the same to be true of those who write good blog posts). I thought I would dip into it a few nights after I got it, and found myself in that happy situation of not being able to put it down. I went to college in Canada (though American born and bred) and I have a great affection for the best Canadian literature. I found here shades of Alice Munro and even of Robertson Davies in the way that the social mores of southern Ontario are illuminated. There is a slow reveal of here of the core of Ms. Guthrie, the main character, and of the incidents that made her into the woman she has become. It is a carefully made book and I enjoyed it from beginning to end.