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Hah, gotta love Munro. For the most part the title story goes on in her usual way and then, bam! Brutal plot element out of nowhere.

Fascinating story of the teenage daughter of a rich and deeply religious but morally challenged newspaper publisher in Nigeria during a time of civil unrest

When I am done reading this book I think I will start using it for weightlifting purposes

It's always interesting when part of a novel takes place in part in somewhere I know rather well and seeing how it's described - in this case, Charlottesville. What's sort of interesting is that there is a restaurant at a winery near the city that actually uses the name "Palladio" - I wonder if that was an inspiration in some way?

So many novelists have a problem with dialogue that when you read someone like Zadie Smith who just gets it - there's really something special about it. Salinger is the only other author I've read who just gets it, and this well