The Shipping News Sue Monk Kidd a pulse-pounding new novel set

a pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands

where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine

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The Shipping News Sue Monk Kidd a pulse-pounding new novel setWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, Annie Proulxs The Shipping News is a vigorous, darkly comic, and at times magical portrait of the contemporary North American family. Quoyle, a third rate newspaper hack, with a head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair features as bunched as kissed fingertips, is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally