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jenmcmaynes 's review for:
Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro
A series of loosely connected snapshots in the life of Del Jordan, growing up post WWII in a rural town in Canada. So much detail of the crushing conventionality of the town, the people, even of Del’s interior life, left me bored and rather depressed. The word I would use to describe this is joyless. Coming of age stories usually have to be a balancing act, between the horrors and mysteries and uncertainties, but also the joys of discovery and love and knowledge. There wasn’t much balance in this novel, and though I could admire the technical skill on display, the whole thing was just a downer.