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Mar 26, 2017sgcf rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Too Much Happiness is the title of one story in this collection, and certainly not an over-arcing theme. Many of the stories are intense or downright grim. Intense, because Munro is a master of creating the whole world of each story in 30 pages, and reeling in the reader with her meticulous detail and ingenious plotting where the hook is rarely ever what the story is *about*. Along the way we’re treated to penetrating and shrewd gems about, oh, so many aspects of ordinary life. With short story collections I usually read only one a day to let it roll around in me, but couldn’t help myself – sometimes gobbled two in a day.