This is a rich book that I cannot recommend highly enough.

This series of interconnected short stories centers. Our posts on the eight stories total approximately 24,000 words, and we both feel there are vast areas we didn’t even touch on, let alone explore. Lives of Girls and Women is a short story cycle by Canadian author Alice Munro, first published in 1971. Now that we’ve completed the project, I’m very proud of what we’ve accomplished together and as individuals. This Study Guide consists of approximately 68 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Lives of Girls and Women. This is the anchor post, an index with links to our posts on each story in this collection. Lives of Girls and Women Study Questions & Topics for Discussion. These stories are rich and worth going through one-by-one as well. So that’s just what we’re going to do. However, in many ways it is still a collection of short stories, all dealing with a single character whom me met in Dance of the Happy Shades, Del Jordan.

Print Word PDF This section contains 2,319 words (approx. Munro’s second book, Lives of Girls and Women (1971), is actually classified as a novel. Alice Munro This Study Guide consists of approximately 68 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Lives of Girls and Women. Earlier this year, Betsy and I started an Alice Munro reading project, going through her stories one at a time, starting with her first collection, Dance of the Happy Shades (click here for an index of posts on each story) (we’d already covered Munro’s most recent collection, Dear Life click here for an index of posts on each story).

Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro