Name: Alice Monroe
Year Won: 2013
Read: Lives of Girls and Women
Original Language: English
Reason: "master of the contemporary short story"
About: Lives of Girls and Women/i> details a young girl's life growing up in rural Ontario. She is surrounded by many colorful characters who she interacts with as she grows to maturity.
What I liked: The description is beautiful and unique and the characterizations are aptly done.
What I Disliked: The plot is literally just..."this girl grows up". Which is very literary since who needs plots? But also makes for a story that doesn't have much motive power.
Should it have won a Nobel: Probably. The Nobel committee does like this sort of thing.
Next Up: "Ballerina" by Patrick Modiano
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