The Love of a Good Woman

In eight “riveting [and] lovely” stories, Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro stunningly explores the strange, often comical desires of the human heart.

Mining the silences and dark discretions of provincial life, the eight tales in The Love of a Good Woman lay bare the seamless connections and shared guilt that bind even the loneliest of individuals.

A stroke victim expresses his deepest secret to a young bride in what may be the last act of intimacy left in him.

A daughter confronts her father with the open secret of his life.

And in the riveting title story, a selfless nurse tending a dying patient discovers the social utility of lies.

Sparklingly detailed, unwaveringly courageous, these are stories that extend the limits of fiction.