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Mavis Gallant is one of those strangely positioned writers whose fans rank her near the top of the literary ladder but who remains, to the rest of the world, not much more than a name.
Mavis believes the deaths are accidental, but circumstances suggest that the act was at least unconsciously volitional.
Before running away from home in Newark, N.J., to the Catholic home--known locally as the Convent--for instance, a character named Mavis allows her twin infants to smother to death in the family car.
Mavis has dreamt of an incubus (clearly a child) taking her blood.