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Two months after thedeathof Nobel laureate Alice Munro, her daughter has opened up about abuse in the family.
Unfortunately, thats not what happened.
My mothers fame meant the silence continued.
At the time, I didnt know this was abuse.
I thought I was doing a good job of preventing abuse by averting my eyes and ignoring his stories.
When Skinner was 11, the mother of a 14-year-old said Fremlin exposed himself to the young girl.
My mother said nothing.
I looked at the floor, afraid she might see my face turning red.
Munro briefly left Fremlin before eventually taking her husbands side and remaining married until he died in 2013.
The lauded writer treated her husbands abuse like an infidelity that happened between Skinner and her stepfather.
Munro felt it had nothing to do with her, her daughter writes.
The revelation and the subsequent conviction left Skinner estranged from Munro until her death in May.
