Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage
Nine stories of small-town Ontario women whose settled lives turn on a single act, among them a housekeeper whose employer's granddaughter forges letters to arrange a courtship, and an old man whose wife has entered a care home. Munro compresses decades into a few pages and lets the reader assemble what the characters will not say. The title story and the long "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" are among her most reprinted.
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