An epiphany causes Nessa to lose her obsession with this author in a Robert McGill story that uses this author’s name 127 times, titled “Something Something [this author].” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Nobel laureate whose short story collections include Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage and The Moons of Jupiter.
ANSWER: Alice Munro [or Alice Ann Munro or Alice Ann Laidlaw]
[10h] In this story from Hateship, the narrator offends her elderly cousin Alfrida by turning an anecdote about her mother’s death into a published story. This story titles an anthology of Munro’s work from 1995 to 2014.
ANSWER: “Family Furnishings”
[10m] Munro was good friends with Margaret Laurence, whose most widely read novel is titled for an angel of this substance. Carol Shields presented a novel as the diaries of Daisy, whose mother has this substance as a surname.
ANSWER: stone [accept The Stone Angel; accept The Stone Diaries; reject synonyms like “rock”]
<Mitch McCullar, American Literature>