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21: “Family Furnishings", by Alice Munro

The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.

Munro's characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She's always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.

Previously: [https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679](https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110531577683425679), [https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626](https://mastodon.social/@gravely/112440630402434626)


![the cover of A Family Furnishings, selected stories: 1995-2014, originally published as Selected Stories. green on white water color text under an illustration of (I assume) the author, somewhat older than in the previous anthology](./113032251924026999.jpeg)