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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Janet as Alice in a Later Version of Janet

Monroe's brilliance is that she makes it all seem at one sort of very associative and random in the way that the story works. She absolutely thought about whether she wanted this which scenes in which ordered no question about it. And then when you finish the story and look back you know that she's just been kind of visiting a tomb before she goes to her father. Yeah. Well yes it makes a whole mess of cause and effect which I do think is also of course central in a story that is kind of trying to trace different family inheritances.

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