The Republic of Love

By Carol Shield
Penguin Audiobooks, $16.95
3 hours

ISBN 0140863575

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Review by Sukey Howard

"To love or not to love" is the question that plagues Fay McLeod, a thirtysomething, attractive folklore scholar in Winnipeg. The state of her state, of her past and present partners, and of her parents, siblings, and friends are revealed in Carol Shields's charming, funny, poignant novel, The Republic of Love.

When Fay falls in love, yet again, with a late-night radio talk show host and a three-time loser (in marriage that is), she finds herself riding an emotional roller coaster that may crash, slide sadly to a stop, or deposit her, at last, on her feet and unafraid.

Shields, who won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1995, is a master storyteller and here captures of the rapture and the bewilderment that love brings with it. She reads her own work in a small, but very affecting, voice.

Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's Sunday Morning.

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