Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott In a moment of self-absorption, Clara Purdy’s life takes a sharp left turn when she crashes into a beat-up car carrying an itinerant family of six. The Gage family had been travelling to a new life in Fort McMurray, but bruises on the mother, Lorraine, prove to be late-stage cancer rather than remnants of the accident. Recognizing their need as her responsibility, Clara tries to do the right thing and moves the children, husband, and horrible grandmother into her own house–then has to cope with the consequences of practical goodness.
What, exactly, does it mean to be good? When is sacrifice merely selfishness? What do we owe in this life and what do we deserve? Marina Endicott looks at life and death through the compassionate lens of a born novelist: being good, being at fault, and finding some balance on the precipice.
“I found the characters in this book a little hard to relate to. They were either so good that people walked all over them or they were terribly selfish and cruel. I found myself hoping that one of the bad characters would get caught or face some kind of repercussions for their actions. I did really enjoy the storyline. The idea of all these people coming together to help one another out and becoming a family among themselves made for a nice story.” – Kelly
