Vintage Canada

The stories collected here offer an entrancing look at some of the various miracles of everyday life, the quirks of chance and coincidence, life’s setbacks and improvisations. Carol Shields deftly…

In 1985, at twenty-five, Jeanette published Oranges, the story of a girl adopted by Pentecostal parents, supposed to grow up to be a missionary. Instead, she falls in love with…