This is a collection of 11 stories, in which women make discoveries about love, men. relationships, families and life in their contemporary Canadian small- town. Reviews ‘How does one know when one is in the grip of an, a major talent? One feels it in the assurance, the sensibility behind every line of a work; one knows its presence as much from what is withheld as from what is given or explained. It is art that speaks from the pages of Alice Munro’s stories.’ Wall Street Journal