Open Secrets: Stories

Alice Munro. Vintage Books USA, $15 (304pp) ISBN 978-0-679-75562-3

Loosely connected short stories mine both the history of a small Canadian town and the complex personal histories of Munro's protagonists. (Nov.)

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