Witness: Carol Shields’ Happenstance and The Stone Diaries
Buried In Print2020-12-27T14:27:37-05:00The call for witnesses in The Stone Diaries resonates throughout Shields’ work: “Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the