"Unless"

The Evening Book Club agreed that the author's illness and subsequent death was a theme subtley woven throughout the book. Carol Shields had breast cancer when she wrote the book and died after the book was published.
We talked about the place of daily life in all its tediousness in a book about a crisis that befalls a family...in this case, a daughter who drops out of college and goes begging on the street.
We discussed the definitions of "goodness" and "greatness". Shields' book talks alot about those words and we decided that what or who was great depends on who is bestowing the honor.