WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE ® IN LITERATURE 2013

In the thirteen stories in her remarkable second collection, Alice Munro demonstrates
the precise observation, straightforward prose style, and masterful technique that
led no less a critic than John Updike to compare her to Chekhov. The sisters, mothers
and daughters, aunts, grandmothers, and friends in these stories shimmer with hope
and love, anger and reconciliation, as they contend with their histories and their
present, and what they can see of the future.