The Progress of Love

This is the collection where Munro's late style fully arrived, and it shows — the title story alone, with its three-generation mystery of a mother's act of burning money and what that secret teaches her descendants about love, is among the finest things she ever wrote. The fragmentary chronology and layered memory technique demand active reading, but readers willing to meet Munro on her terms will find emotional and psychological precision that few writers in any language match. A Governor General's Award winner that fully deserved it.