Mourning Alice Munro Again, After Hearing Her Daughter’s Devastating Story of Abuse
I loved her, and I can never read her the same way again
She saw everything.
In the 14 books of short stories that make up her oeuvre, the late Alice Munro could slice through the human core with a handful of words. She saw men, like the unloved suitor from The Beggar Maid: “Patrick had a way of expressing surprise, fairly scornful surprise, when people did not know something he knew, and similar scorn, similar surprise, whenever they had bothered to…
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