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kryptowright1984 's review for:
Lives of Girls and Women
by Alice Munro
Alice Munro crafts stories that make me hold my breath. While allowing her shrewd, tough women to walk the world, she emphasizes the importance of their explorations and adventures across their small town lives, so we know they are never too far from making mistakes that may lock them into dreary, boxed-in existences in these aforementioned small towns.
That ever-present temptation to slip up and settle surrounds the main character of Lives of Girls and Women. And how she learns from her childhood in her small Canadian haven is what fuels the narrative of this novel. As her decisions and encounters pile up, you find yourself rooting for her success in the outside world even as she honors her family's heritage in the Great White North. Munro enchants you without your even realizing it, and sucks you into every detail she lays out. Easily my favorite writer of the past few years.
That ever-present temptation to slip up and settle surrounds the main character of Lives of Girls and Women. And how she learns from her childhood in her small Canadian haven is what fuels the narrative of this novel. As her decisions and encounters pile up, you find yourself rooting for her success in the outside world even as she honors her family's heritage in the Great White North. Munro enchants you without your even realizing it, and sucks you into every detail she lays out. Easily my favorite writer of the past few years.