The last story in her last book evoked her mother’s death.
Does it seem reductive or limiting to derive a kind of artist’s statement from the title of that early book?
Munro was hardly a doctrinaire feminist, but with implacable authority and command she demonstrated throughout her career that the lives of girls and women were as rich, as tumultuous, as dramatic and as important as the lives of men and boys.
For a writer whose book titles gestured repeatedly at love (“The Progress of Love,” “The Love of a Good Woman,” “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage”), her narratives recoiled from sentimentality.
You got the feeling that, if the GPS ever offered her a shorter route, she would decline.
Persons:
Alice Munro, Munro, “, ”, Rose, Del Jordan, —, gestured
Organizations:
“ Boys, Yorker, GPS
Locations:
Ontario, Lake Huron