Grigg s inclusion in the club was mystifying
Each of us has a private Austen. Jocelyn s Austen wrote wonderful novels about love and courtship, but never married. Bernadette s Austen was a comic genius. Sylvia s Austen was a daughter, a sister, an aunt. Allegra s Austen wrote about the impact of financial need on the intimate lives of women. Prudie s was the Austen whose books changed every time you read them, so that one year they were all romances and the next you suddenly noticed Austen s cool, ironic prose. None of us knew who Grigg s Austen was.
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