A. Macbeth’s bks’s Reviews > The Cost of Living: Early and Uncollected Stories > Status Update

Ok. Just read MG’s short piece ‘Going Ashore’ - Add - in Tangiers, Africa. A few hours of a slice of the life of a nice, but questionably home schooled twelve year old girl Emma, with a seemingly promiscuous mom who seemed to mysteriously, successfully live off men what with all the money she was throwing around; I mean a forty-five day cross-Atlantic cruise for two? Who can afford that?

Just finished reading ‘The Picnic’, a short story MG wrote in 1952. Having read through a few of her other collections of short fiction, I do get a sense of her not being as fully developed in her ‘mindset’ for writing as she’ll be later. Her writing skills per se, of course, were great already - it’s just her cultural perspectives or something that were a bit greenhorn in the early days.