The Progress of Love

Alice Munro's 1986 collection of eleven stories examines how love changes, fails and survives across a lifetime. Set mostly in small towns and on farms in Ontario and in Vancouver, the stories follow mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, and lovers as they confront memory, betrayal and regret. The title story shows how a family's version of a painful event shifts from one generation to the next.

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