Lives of Mothers & Daughters: Growing Up with Alice Munro
Novelist and short-story writer Alice Munro's many readers are certain to find this an intriguing memoir. It is the first book by Munro's daughter, Sheila, now a mother of two children and an aspiring writer living in British Columbia. The book seems in many ways a typical family story, replete with abundant photographs from the family album, images from the 50s through the 90s that would look perfectly comfortable spread out on the coffee table of almost any middle-class North American home. What makes the book extraordinary are the extraordinary accomplishments of the mother under consideration--Alice, a woman who somehow managed to integrate domesticity with a writer's life and who did it, by Sheila's account, with considerable grace and intelligence.Mommie Dearestthis is not. Alice Munro's readers will be especially interested in Sheila's descriptions of family events that worked their way into her mother's stories.Trygve ThoresonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.