Will I love Dear Life?

Alice Munro is, I believe, my favorite living author (written before Alice's death on May 13, 2024). As with Marilynne Robinson, the choice of this particular collection, as opposed to others of Munro’s, verges on the arbitrary. Her capacity to render inner lives–which more often than not are quietly turbulent–seems to me matchless and she achieves her effects without straining for effect. She always seems to find the pluperfectly concise language to draw us into the small maelstroms of a character’s life. 

As one who is persistently intrigued by the way in which pasts and presents can conflict with, interfuse… show more.

Alice Munro, like Joan Didion, is a powerful writer. Alice has given us this collection of stories that can take us away to her character’s world. Reading this book felt like an escape to that world and it felt real like I was in the place she wrote about as the scene unfolds. Tremendously captivating, fun, and at times surprising. Love her books!