Lives of Girls and Women Becky Chambers * Shift from self-doubt to

* Shift from self-doubt to self-acceptance

and occasionally tough private detective in The Outsider

and taught writing and literature at prestigious schools

vengeful dorm pranks

—exploring new avenues of maternal ambivalence

Lives of Girls and Women Becky Chambers * Shift from self-doubt toWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2013 The only novel from Alice Munro award winning author of The Love of a Good Woman is an insightful, honest book, "autobiographical in form but not in fact," that chronicles a young girl's growing up in rural Ontario in the 1940's. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father's fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger