Open Secrets: Stories by Alice MunroMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Everything they say about Alice Munro is true. Her stories are deep, novel and haunting. Wonderful and disturbing. Her characters are flawed and mysterious. Why they do the things they do, we'll never know. But then, maybe we do know after all.
The most appalling acts have origins in some distant past event, or in a bizarre stubborn individuality.
Letters provide a narrative when "real" events are hidden from us. We read the words written by the characters explaining everything, or hiding behind a false identity.
They can never really bring themselves to tell the whole truth. Secrets bubble up like blisters.
These stories demand to be read over and over again. The way they fit together is something like a novel, one set in many places, times and settings at once, but like a family tree in the stories' relation to each other. One begets another.
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