RaveThe Pittsburgh Post-GazetteThese stories must be read slowly and savored. They will change your tempo as Eastern theater and dance do, making you notice what is small or still, making you reflect. They are built of startling moments, long back stories, leaps of time and place. There is no simple causal train to take the protagonist from A to Z. What happens is odd, skewed, inner and hardly predictable … Munro has been called Chekhovian in that she writes the comedy of ironic twists and hidden intentions. She is also, in these later stories, Beckettian, telling tales of reduction
