stolee 's review for:

Queenie by Alice Munro
3.0

I bought this small paperback containing only this story in 2015 at a bookstore in Florence, Italy, while pushing Claire around in a stroller as Katie was at a conference. I remember finding this store in narrow alleyways and near a toy store where I bought Claire a pull-toy alligator.

I hadn't reread the story since that time, so tonight I read it again so I could put it in our little library. Nothing about the story was familiar, so it had not stuck with me. But it is well written and takes interesting diversions into the past and future throughout its brisk plot.