Description:
This magnificent novel asks if stories can play a role in offering opportunities for acts of courage, love and kindness. Will Pearl take what she needs from her inheritance; and does her story hold out possibilities not only for her own future but for our own?
Review Quotes:
"The Unfinished World is a beautiful novel that performs a remarkable trick with history, time, and memory, a brilliant interweaving that is both teasingly cerebral and richly heartfelt." --Bill Gaston, author of Juliet Was a Surprise and The World
"As intricate as Mitchell's Cloud Atlas -- but more fluent -- this dazzling novel takes the reader around the world, through time, across genres, and finally, into deep, cold, and dangerous waters. A thrilling and compelling read propelled in equal measures by grief, wonder and joy." --Kathy Page, author of Dear Evelyn, and Paradise & Elsewhere. "I think The Unfinished World is certainly one of the best novels I've read in the last 10 years. Why wasn't it awarded the Giller Prize, the GG, and every other prize out there? I found the structure of the novel amazing. It begins with a failure we all know--not understanding the gifts of the generations before us. The shifts of time and epochs are so compelling--each so convincingly authentic to the age from the deep Middle Ages forward. The way the characters unexpectedly form a biological inheritance is beautifully laid out. I felt such deep nostalgia for the West Coast, and its landscape and creatures, as I neared the end of the novel. Bravo to you... I am still haunted by it." --Rosemary Sullivan, author of Fierce Attachments "The Unfinished World is extraordinary. Marilyn Bowering's writing has always had the power to enchant me and make me believe whatever she wants me to see and hear and know." --Isabel Huggan