'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
Independent voices from the TWT Communities
"Dolly," one of the 14 stories in Alice Munro's "Dear Life," opens with the narrator and her husband, Franklin, a famed poet, planning their deaths.
Will Ferguson has won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards for a novel about a Canadian family's entanglement in a Nigerian email scan.
"If this were happening today, he might have made an appointment for me to see a psychiatrist," she notes. "(I think that is what I might have done for a child, a generation and an income further on.)"
She tells her readers what they need to know but doesn't overanalyze.
