What: The Box Garden is about kindness. It's also about heart attacks and weddings and kidnapping and poetry and defrocked priests and botany and assholes who are so concerned with "finding themselves" that they screw over everyone else. But it's mainly about kindness.
Comparable to: Alice Munro, probably. I mean, I'm always getting Carol Shields and Alice Munro confused. So I'll say they're similar, in defense. (This one's by Carol Shields. Alice Munro is known for her short story whatsits.)
Representative quote: "[He] could never guess at the single certainty which swamps my life and which can be summed up in the simplest of phrases: I will never be brave."
You might not like it if: You would actually like some gardening tips, please.
How to get it: Various book retailers will be happy to sell it to you. Your library will be happy to loan it out to you. Amazon will be happy to Kindlefy it for you.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Would you like to have a day full of Canadians? Of course you would; they're lovely. In addition to The Box Garden, please also enjoy Margaret Visser's The Rituals of Dinner (Rec. #63), David Rakoff's Don't Get too Comfortable (Rec. #76), Kate Beaton's Hark! A Vagrant (Rec. #95), Margaret Atwood's The Robber Bride (Rec. #105), and the television series Slings and Arrows (Rec. #127).
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