The man was Gerald Fremlin, a retired civil servant and geographer, who hailed from the same corner of Ontario as Munro. Munro amassed a thicket of honors, including the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2013, by turning this parochial backwater, with its “falling-down barns” and “burdensome old churches,” into a stage for the whole human comedy, like Joyce’s Dublin or …
If you love Alice Munro’s fiction, you’ve likely spent much of the past few days wondering: How could an artist so sensitive and astute behave with such callous selfishness toward her own child? What’s striking about “Vandals” is how briefly and obliquely Munro describes this abuse as Liza remembers it—a handful of lines about how “Ladner grabbed Liza and squashed …
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Canadian short story author Alice Munro died in May at age 92. After briefly leaving Fremlin, Munro told Skinner of her husband’s “friendships” with other children and said she “had been betrayed.” “When I tried to tell her how her husband’s abuse had hurt me, she was incredulous,” Skinner wrote. After her revelation, Skinner said, Fremlin allegedly threatened her if …
