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Rumpus Book ClubApril 1st, 2009
Aimee Bender: The Last Book I Loved, Runaway
I came late to the Alice Munro party but now that I’m here I’m planted and staying. This book floored me—the first story, yes, good, interesting, intriguing, but it was story #2, “Chance” that handled storytelling and character and mystery so fluidly and with such freshness that I felt like a real idiot for all the wrong assumptions I’d had about Munro in the past. For some dumb reason I thought she’d be much more straightforward than she is. Wrong! It was my wise friend Mia who kept shoving the stories in my face and telling me to read them even though I was sure they weren’t for me. Munro seems impossible to categorize— …more
