Friend of My Youth

A “wickedly funny” ( Newsweek ) collection of ten short stories from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ). “Each of her collections demonstrates such linguistic skill, delicacy of vision, and . . . moral strength and clarity.”— Chicago Tribune   A woman haunted by dreams of her dead mother. An adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain