Lives of Girls and Women

The debut novel from Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro, “one of the most eloquent and gifted writers of contemporary fiction” ( The New York Times ). “Munro has an unerring talent for uncovering the extraordinary in the ordinary.”— Newsweek   Rural Ontario, 1940s. Del Jordan lives out at the end of the Flats Road on her father’s fox farm, where her most frequent companions are an eccentric bachelor family friend and her rough younger brother. When she begins spending more time in town,