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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Last Two Scenes of the Father and Nicola

I think that this sort of solitary scene at the end is important because she is going to be alone and I think she's going to remain with some of her ambivalence. You know it's where have we begun in this strange sort of spiraling family history. We get another pretty remarkable time shift at the very end when we cut back from there saying goodbye in the hospital to where she went between the planetarium and going to the hospital. It's same day but it's suddenly back and we end before the goodbye happens.

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