Dear Life (Hardcover)

December 2012 Indie Next List

“'Nothing changes really about love.' This is the last line of the second story in this collection and it sums up a lot of what makes Alice Munro's writing a gift to the world. Achingly real people in ordinary situations are illuminated by her words as an elusive shock of recognition grabs the reader. The four selections at the end are marvelous autobiographical sketches, with the last concealing the line from which the title is taken: 'Just after my mother had grabbed me up, as she said, for dear life.'”
— Karen Frank, Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, VT