Description: A superb new collection from a best-loved writer, these nine stories draw readers immediately into that special place known as Munro territory--a place where an unexpected twist of events or a suddenly recaptured memory can illumine the arc of an entire life.
Review Quotes: "Surely Munro's best yet." -The New York Times Book Review
"She is the living writer most likely to be read in a hundred years." -Mona Simpson, The Atlantic Monthly "One of the foremost practitioners of the art of the short story. . . . These tales have the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life." -The New York Times "A writer to cherish. . . . The sheer spaciousness of Munro's storytelling, her gift for surprising us with the truth about ourselves, has transcended national boundaries." -Los Angeles Times Book Review"In Munro's hands, as in Chekhov's, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world-and to astonish us, again and again." --Chicago Tribune Praise from fellow writers: "Her work felt revolutionary when I came to it, and it still does." --Jhumpa Lahiri "She is one of the handful of writers, some living, most dead, whom I have in mind when I say that fiction is my religion." --Jonthan Franzen "The authority she brings to the page is just lovely." --Elizabeth Strout "She's the most savage writer I've ever read, also the most tender, the most honest, the most perceptive." --Jeffery Eugenides "Alice Munro can move characters through time in a way that no other writer can."--Julian Barnes "She is a short-story writer who...reimagined what a story can do." --Loorie Moore "There's probably no one alive who's better at the craft of the short story." --Jim Shepard "A true master of the form." --Salman Rushdie "A wonderful writer." --Joyce Carol Oates