Linnet Muir and Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant: From childhood, Gallant herself was a migrant: shunted from one guardian to another after her parents separation and her fathers death, she attended 17 schools, in French and English, in Canada and the United States. She became an expatriate in her soul long before she was one by formal definition. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. Writer Mavis Gallant dies at age 91 In the third summer of the war I began to meet refugees, runs the opening sentence of Mavis Gallants Varieties of Exile , one of six revealing stories about Linnet Muir, a character who, like her creator, is named after a bird. The literary world reacts to Mavis Gallants death (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.