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Alice Munro’s Passive Voice
The celebrated writer’s partner sexually abused her daughter Andrea. The abuse transformed Munro’s fiction, but she left it to Andrea to confront the true story.
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She shrugged. Astrid saw then that she’d been badly hurt, badly treated and had, like a winter shrew, responded with shrinkage. Somehow, she’d let herself get so small that she’d ended up in an isolated gatehouse on the edge of a Scottish estate, writing an old man’s life.