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Munro Country
What made her different to me was another thing entirely, and it wasn't about style but subject and, even more precisely, it was about Alice Munro herself. It didn't matter that she was Canadian and thirty-seven years older than I and that her life was, in dozens of particular ways not like my own. When I read her stories, I felt like she'd lived my life.
The sensation of a shared small-town coming of age is the connection that leaves Cheryl Strayed feeling powerfully linked to Alice Munro. Follow along in her essay "Munro Country" as Strayed learns the balance between embracing this link to her past and following her own path to the future.
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Cheryl Strayed's memoir, Wild, will be published by Knopf in 2010. Her debut novel, Torch, was published by Houghton Mifflin in 2006. Strayed's personal essays have appeared in more than a dozen magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, Allure, Self, Brain Child and The Sun, and have twice been selected for inclusion in the Best American Essays. She lives in Portland, Oregon. [2009]
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33.2 Summer 2010
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