This is the second book of short stories of Alice Munro's that I've read, and as I felt after the last one, she has a gift for writing about complexities of inter-personal relationships, and memory/the passage of time. I really liked this collection -- the theme of most stories was marriage and/or a woman's journey towards something more independent. My one issue was that I thought that almost all of the stories featured a long-term marriage that became distant or stale, and it would have been interesting to feature one that went in the opposite direction. And I started to anticipate the direction the story was going to go in.