Friend of My Youth

Alice Munro's 1990 collection of ten stories explores love, marriage, betrayal and memory, mostly among women in small-town and rural Ontario. In the title story, a woman recalls her late mother's tales about a family of strict Cameronians and the young woman who lost her fiancé to her own sister. Other stories follow affairs, friendships and family ties that shift and deepen over the course of decades.

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