Clara Callan
By Richard B. Wright
Harper Collins Publishers - October 2002
ISBN: 0-06-050606-7
Fiction

Reviewed by Susan Johnson, MyShelf.Com
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Richard Wright is author of the year and Clara Callan is fiction book of the year in Canada along with a multitude of other awards. This book, Clara Callan, stayed on the Canadian bestseller list at number 1 for over 32 weeks.

Clara Callan is a wonderfully deep and moving story of two sisters, living in the early 1930's. This was a time when the world was on the brink of a war and the Depression was going on. These two sisters, Clara and Nora were both raised in a small town in Ontario, Canada. Clara chooses to stay there and become what at that time was considered a spinster school teacher. Nora, the outwardly-seeming adventurous one, travels to New York and becomes a radio soap opera actress and quickly gains a measure of fame.

Both sisters face many tough decisions and events in their life. The reader is treated to a peek inside both lives through a series of letters and pages from each sister's personal diary.

Clara Callan was immensely readable and enjoyable. I had to stop and wonder how a male writer managed to capture the complexities and emotions of the female soul so well.

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