Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields is a little gem, a masterful chamber piece. It’s not the grand orchestra of The Stone Diaries but it is wonderful none-the-less. Set in a Canadian university town in the 1970’s, Small Ceremonies is a year-in-the-life of Judith Gill, mother, wife, biographer. Judith lives with her husband, a professor of Milton, her teenage daughter and her young son. Their family … Continue reading Small Ceremonies by Carol Shields