This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir

This Is Not the Ivy League: A Memoir

In passages reminiscent of Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women, we see a smart girl who, to realize her potential, must bring her own volition ruthlessly to bear. When, after marrying at age eighteen, she becomes pregnant within the year, her mother-in-law is triumphant: "I guess this i...

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Veröffentlicht in:Great plains quarterly 2012, Vol.32 (3), p.223-224
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