Peopleโs lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, and unfathomable โ deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.
Alice MunroThey were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.
Alice MunroShe was learning, quite late, what many people around her appeared to have known since childhood that life can be perfectly satisfying without major achievements.
Alice MunroA story ... has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.
Alice Munro