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September 28, 1981

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Labor Day Dinner

Fiction, from 1981.

Alice Munro, "Labor Day Dinner": "Just before six o'clock in the evening, George and Roberta and Angela and Eva get out of George's pickup truck." Family complexity at summer's end, Munro's characteristic precision.

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