Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: Stories

In the her tenth collection (the title story of which is the basis for the new film
, Alice Munro achieves new heights, creating narratives that loop and swerve like memory, and conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves.
A tough-minded housekeeper jettisons the habits of a lifetime because of a teenager’s practical joke. A college student visiting her brassy, unconventional aunt stumbles on an astonishing secret and its meaning in her own life. An incorrigible philanderer responds with unexpected grace to his wife’s nursing-home romance.
is Munro at her best, tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.