The writing is so natural and Munro makes it looks effortless. The characters, their voices, their stories, the places where they live, falter and trimuph, survive and die, have changed me. The plot twists are at times unlikely and at the same time completely believable, the way Flannery O'Connor would sometimes take me down a winding path and lead me to some implausible place, only to find that it was all inevitable. I've learned that I should be reading more because there are few things in life that reach my soul and mind the way a writer like Munro can.
Believe or not I had never read Alice Munro til I got this book for Christmas.