Everything you need to understand or teach The Republic of Love by Carol Shields.
To be a romantic, notes Fay's brother, "is to believe anything can happen to us."
Despite sometimes remarkable odds, people find love and happiness in this world. The Republic of Love is a celebration of love as ordinary occurrence, and it is an ambitious task in this age of cynicism.
The subject of love is treated neither with pure romanticism nor with out-and-out mistrust. Shields is very much aware of the fashionably dim...
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