Runaway: Stories

A powerful book of short stories exploring the complication of running away, and the even greater complication of returning home, only to find it is not the home it once was - all with exclusively female protagonists, subverting the archetype of the woman as anchor, the woman as the home, the woman who is trapped by a domestic life.

It would be a difficult task to even begin to touch here what Munro accomplishes - each story is in itself a novel, with so much to be unpacked. Each one left me feeling like I had been punched in the gut.

This review from The Guardian sums it up as well as I ever could:
“Munro's stories have always felt exceptionally capacious; they have the scope of novels, though without any awkward sense of speeding up or boiling down... It's almost impossible to describe their unforced exactness, their unrushed economy.”