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… Santa Fe Province, across ten miles of pitted gravel road, also held a promise. It, too, was fulfilled only after … was embedded so deeply in the old continent that accommodation to a dominant Christianity was impossible; … years. During that first year, 1889, some 60 children died of illnesses and deprivations. The people, living in …

… labor camps scattered across the Northeastern Blueberry Company’s vast farm in Washington County, Maine, were raking … Big Cove who’s working out, punching bags, wants to be a UFC fighter.” UFC is Ultimate Fighting Championship—the Las … citizenship. There are Canadian Mi’kmaqs fighting as US soldiers in Iraq. Thousands live in and around Boston. At the …

… it should not be killed in cyanide, but allowed to die slowly: then the colors, especially the reds and blues, … shiver of gold, and then the river again. When the trout dies it turns its white belly to the mirror of the sky. The … eye, you are least certain it is there. When the blue heron dies it lies beyond reach on the far side of the river. …

… to chart the intricacies of human beings, the incredible complexity and ambiguity of emotions. For example, Munro has … or fragmentary. Mystery and surprise are crucial ingredients of every single good story, and Munro is a master of … Emily Dickinson. How many others? In Canada, you didn’t get points off for being a woman. The challenge wasn’t so much …

… hands are balled into fists, her eyes on the lookout for oncoming traffic—this though we are on a country road with hardly any oncoming traffic, only grazing sheep. Dozens, hundreds … been my nature to cling to the literal. Perhaps it was to compensate for the extent to which my siblings had fucked up …