Happenstance
novel by Shields
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"Happenstance" is a novel by Carol Shields, published in 1980. The novel, like others by Shields, explores the lives of ordinary people and uses overlapping narratives to present events from multiple perspectives, moving beyond a single point of view. The term "happenstance" itself refers to something that occurs by chance.12
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