Books like Dance of the Happy Shades
Munro's first collection, fifteen stories of childhood and young womanhood in the towns of southwestern Ontario.
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Dear Life
Munro's last book: stories of small-town Ontario, ending with four pieces she called autobiographical in feeling, if not always in fact.
Open Secrets
Stories of the secrets of small Ontario towns, among them a librarian's wartime correspondence with a soldier she has never met, and a schoolgirl who vanishes on a hike.
Sightseeing
Stories of Thai families and teenagers living on the edges of the tourist trade, in Bangkok and on the islands.
We Need New Names
Darling, ten, roams a Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise with her friends, stealing guavas, until she goes to live with her aunt in Michigan.
A Crime in the Neighborhood
In the summer of 1972, in a Washington suburb, ten-year-old Marsha's father leaves her mother for her aunt, and a boy is murdered behind the local mall.
The Garden Party and Other Stories
Mansfield's stories of family life in New Zealand and England, among them At the Bay, The Garden Party and The Daughters of the Late Colonel.
Cat's Eye
A painter in 1980s Toronto revisits her childhood tormentors and discovers that the cruelties of girlhood shaped everything she became.
Foster
A girl from a large, struggling family is sent to live with relatives on a farm in rural Ireland for a summer, and the quiet kindness she finds there changes her, in a single, devastating novella.
Interpreter of Maladies
Nine stories of Indian immigrants and their American-born children, caught between cultures and the quiet tragedies of misunderstanding.
A Curtain of Green
Welty's debut stories of small-town Mississippi lives: a travelling salesman, a postmistress, a Black jazz pianist, women talking on porches and in beauty parlours.
When Rain Clouds Gather
Makhaya, a political refugee from South Africa, crosses into Botswana and settles in the village of Golema Mmidi, where an English agricultural worker is trying to change how the villagers farm.
Malgudi Days
Stories of the people of Malgudi, a fictional town in south India: astrologers, postmen, beggars, schoolboys and their small dramas.