Dear Life

By Alice Munro

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Alice Munro's 2012 collection, her last, contains ten stories set mostly in small towns in Ontario, along with four closing pieces she described as autobiographical in feeling, if not always in fact. The stories follow ordinary people at moments when chance, desire or a single decision changes their lives, and the final section returns to Munro's own childhood in Wingham and her relationship with her parents.

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• Hillary Clinton: “My favorite short stories are by Alice Munro, especially her collections “Carried Away” and “Runaway.””