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First published in the March 22, 2004, issue of The New Yorker, “Passion” is a short story by Canadian author Alice Munro
. This coming-of-age story is told through the recollections of an older woman named Grace, whose experience in the orbit of a summer fling’s upper-class family changes the course of her life forever. Munro was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013 for her exemplary and prolific short story writing.Read the full story summary, an in-depth character analysis of Grace, and descriptions of the main ideas in “Passion.”
