In one of this author's stories, Laird's older sister lets a horse escape slaughter and is dismissed with the phrase, "She's only a girl.
One of this author's narrators remembers the years of her childhood distinctly, but can't tell the years apart while raising her own children. After seeing an article about another artist, that woman concludes "Fame must be striven for, then apologized for" and realizes that she withdrew affection from her daughter after a leukemia scare. In one of this author's stories, Laird's older sister lets a horse escape slaughter and is dismissed with the phrase, "She's only a girl." This author of (*) Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage wrote about Janet, who visits a planetarium while awaiting the outcome of her father's operation. This author's Miss Marsalles hosts a piano recital at which a girl with Down syndrome plays the title song. For 10 points, "Dance of the Happy Shades" and "The Moons of Jupiter" are short stories by what Canadian author?
One of this author's narrators remembers the years of her childhood distinctly, but can't tell the years apart while raising her own children.
Alice Munro