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A painter in 1980s Toronto revisits her childhood tormentors and discovers that the cruelties of girlhood shaped everything she became.
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How Should a Person Be?
A young woman in Toronto tries to figure out how to live by imitating her friends, making art, and asking the title question with increasing desperation.
An Artist of the Floating World
In the years after World War II, a once-celebrated Japanese painter tries to arrange his daughter's marriage while slowly facing the propaganda he made for the imperial cause.
Bridge of Sighs
Lou Lynch, sixty, who has spent his whole life in the upstate New York town of Thomaston running his family's corner stores, writes his life story as he and his wife plan a trip to Venice to see his boyhood friend Bobby Marconi, now a famous painter.
The Blind Assassin
In her eighties, Iris Chase Griffen looks back on her privileged childhood in small-town Ontario, her younger sister Laura, who drove a car off a bridge ten days after the war ended, and the scandalous novel published under Laura's name, a story of secret lovers.
Alias Grace
A servant girl in nineteenth-century Canada is convicted of double murder, and a doctor tries to determine whether she's a victim, a madwoman, or a killer.
Jenny
In Rome, Jenny Winge, a twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian painter, accepts a proposal from a younger admirer she doesn't love, and back home in Kristiania his father comes into her life.
Burnt Sugar
Antara, an artist in Pune, cares for her mother Tara, who is losing her memory, a woman who once walked out on her marriage for an ashram and dragged her small daughter along.
Dance of the Happy Shades
Munro's first collection, fifteen stories of childhood and young womanhood in the towns of southwestern Ontario.
My Friends
Eighteen-year-old Louisa, an artist with nowhere to call home, has always wondered about the tiny figures at the end of a pier in a famous painting, and when it is unexpectedly left in her care she sets out to learn about the summer, twenty-five years earlier, when four teenagers spent their days on that pier.
Whistler
At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, fifty-three-year-old Daphne Fuller's husband thinks they are being followed, and the man turns out to be Eddie Triplett, her former stepfather, whom she has not seen in almost forty-five years; their reunion takes her back to the year she was nine.
The Ebony Tower
A novella and four shorter pieces about concealment and desire: a young English painter's visit to an old master and his two young companions in Brittany, a medieval lay retold, a burglary, a vanished politician and a picnic.
Bluebeard
An ageing abstract expressionist tells the story of his life and his art, and the painting he won't let anyone see conceals the trauma he survived.