Fugitives

8 nouvelles sur des femmes dont la vie a changé (ou pas) suite à diverses circonstances : fuite d'un mari brutal, rencontre imprévue... Certains personnages reviennent d'une nouvelle à l'autre à divers moments de leur vie. De beaux récits intimes, remplis d'espoir, d'amour, de malheur et de souffrance, racontés sans pathos, sans moralisation, juste avec le partage pudique d'intimité, dans un style dépouillé, sans fioriture, au plus près des personnages.

Mild stories of Canadian women figuring out adulthood in the Sixties, short stories but not small and progressing to somewhere complicated and darker.

Super collection of stories that dip their toes into varied topics, but with a place-based commonality that keeps the book interesting from start to finish. Excellent prose and dialogue, occasionally surreal and outstandingly sincere.

I'd heard how good Alice Munro is and how she's the best living short story writer but as a guy, the domestic detail themes were putting me off, a little.
If you are male and think this writer isn't for you, you'd be wrong. If you are a feeling human being you'll get something from them. She has a way of letting the stories resonate with each other, so that they move deeper feelings like really good poetry, yet on the surface there is nothing flashy, just "ordinary" lives, being lived out.
Some of the stories are connected with the same characters and some are separate, but I come away with the feeling of a unified force.