The Shipping News by Annie Proulx (HarperCollins, 1994)
Fiction
Annie Proulx’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Shipping News (ISBN: 9781857022421, paperback). Is a warm story of recovery that starts with hapless Quoyle gathering up his family after the death of his wife and heading for his ancestral home in remote Newfoundland. There he meets drama, community and hope.