RaveThe National PostThese stories are perfect. Of course they are ... Dear Life is a collection as rich and surprising as any in Alice Munro’s deep career ... \'Finale\' deepens the mystery, and is proof of Munro’s enduring wisdom and grace. Because of course these are stories — beautifully crafted — even if they are also life ... The figures in \'Finale\' are more ghost-like than her usual characters, their motivations more oblique; Munro admits that she cannot set details down in ways that make strict sense, as stories demand. She invites, as she often does, the unknowable.