The middle ground

By Zoe Whittall

Subjects: First person narratives, Canadian Teenage fiction, Fiction, Helpfulness in women, Men/women relations, Robbers, Extramarital relations, Robbery, Escapes, Canadian fiction, Women, Midlife crisis in women

Description: Missy Turner thinks of herself as the most ordinary woman in the world. She has a lot to be thankful for-a great kid, a loving husband, a job she enjoys and the security of living in the small town where she was born. Then one day everything gets turned upside down-she loses her job, catches her husband making out with the neighbor and is briefly taken hostage by a young man who robs the local cafe. With her world rapidly falling apart, Missy finds herself questioning the certainties she's lived with her whole life.