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Clare Sestanovich Reads Alice Munro

The New Yorker: Fiction

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What Do You Think Is Driving You Back and Forge Relationships?

In some ways he to me in this situation is the totally sympathetic character of course how could you possibly decide and it's sort of her rigidity that is more surprising. His decision only fits with one idea of her father that she has and the other one invites a whole different set of possibilities. You know she is equally torn between this I think longing to connect and this fear of connection. She understands all that is entailed in such an all consuming relationship true connection is no small thing.

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