Depicts the life of a girl growing up in small-town Ontario in the 1940s.
Lives of Girls and Women
Author: Alice Munro
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About the Work
This novel depicts the life of a girl growing up in small-town Ontario in the 1940s.
Challenges in Canada
In 1976, a high school principal in Peterborough, Ont., removed this novel from the Grade 13 reading list. The principal “‘questioned its suitability’ because of the explicit language and descriptions of sex scenes,” reported Jeff Sallot in The Globe and Mail.