“My Mother’s Dream” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T16:57:14-04:00

Perhaps, like many of us, Alice Munro has read and fully inhabited a story filled with wonders only to be cheated with the last-line revelation that the guts of that story were nothing but a dream. In contrast, "My Mother's Dream" subverts that expectation and begins with the dream, before

“My Mother’s Dream” Alice Munro2014-07-11T16:57:14-04:00

“Before the Change” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T16:57:23-04:00

The story begins with conflict, the televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon. But "Before the Change" considers other conflicts, closer to home, closer to the heart. "What is that expression? It’s as if he’s got a list of offenses both remembered and anticipated and he’s letting it be known how

“Before the Change” Alice Munro2014-07-11T16:57:23-04:00

“Rich as Stink” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T16:57:30-04:00

In "Save the Reaper" and "The Children Stay" readers are directed to wonder what young children remember of their parents' shenanigans, but in this story readers inhabit Karin's perspective. Karin is certainly old enough to actively observe and contemplate the events unfolding around her (although from a girl's perspective, so

“Rich as Stink” Alice Munro2014-07-11T16:57:30-04:00

“The Children Stay” Alice Munro

2017-07-24T14:28:00-04:00

As with the earlier stories in this collection, readers are cast back in time: by thirty years in "The Children Stay". Readers find themselves on the east coast of the Island, Vancouver Island, but the exact location of the cottage is reminiscent of the way in which the Maitland River

“The Children Stay” Alice Munro2017-07-24T14:28:00-04:00

“Save the Reaper” Alice Munro

2014-07-11T17:03:42-04:00

"Daisy was barely three and could not understand what was going on." Because there is something going on. Something that Daisy, at three years old, could not understand. This is where the story begins, from a future vantage point, when 60-something Eve is looking back at the afternoon in which

“Save the Reaper” Alice Munro2014-07-11T17:03:42-04:00
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