Dear Life Condition:Well Read Max and her adopted family

Max and her adopted family take the ride of their lives

The Diary of a Bookseller (soon to be a major TV series) introduced us to the joys and frustrations of life lived in books

and emotional Surrender trilogy began with Giving In and Letting Go

And one kitten's one moment of curiosity sets off a chain of events that is astonishing

or finishing a journal or sketchbook comes Wreck This Journal

Dear Life Condition:Well Read Max and her adopted familyAlice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Many of these stories are grounded in Munro's home territory the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron but there are departures too.