Away from Her
Alice Munro • 2006
Devastation Rating
dementia marriage aging memory
Our Take
Fiona goes into a care home and forgets her husband in the space of the first month — then falls in love with another resident. Grant watches this happen and cannot determine if it is disease or desire. Munro compresses a whole marriage into this ambiguity. The question of what she remembers is what haunts.
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