Family Furnishings Selected Stories, 1995-2014 [Paperback]

A Best Book of the Year:San Francisco Chronicle, NPR,Minneapolis Star Tribune

Here is a selection of Munro’s most accomplished and powerfully affecting short fiction from the last two decades, a companion volume to A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968–1994. These stories encompass the fullness of human experience, from the wild exhilaration of first love (in “Passion”) to the punishing consequences of  leaving home (“Runaway”) or ending a marriage (“The Children Stay”). And in stories that Munro has described as “closer to the truth than usual”—”Dear Life,” “Working for a Living,” and “Home”—we glimpse the author’s own life.
       Subtly honed with her hallmark precision, grace, and compassion, these stories illuminate the quotidian yet astonishing particularities in the lives of men and women, parents and children, friends and lovers as they discover sex, fall in love, part, quarrel, suffer defeat, set off into the unknown, or find a way to be in the world.

“What a stunning, subtle and sympathetic explorer of the heart Munro is.” —The Washington Post

“Generations to come will relish and studyFamily Furnishings. . . . A superb introduction for those new to her work, and a reminder to longtime fans that Munro is a writer to be cherished.” —NPR

“Brilliant. . . . In the simplest of words, and with the greatest of power, she makes us see and hear an ‘unremarkable’ scene we will never forget.” —The New York Review of Books 
 
“Turn to just about any page and you’ll discover a brilliant insight into human behavior. . . .Family Furnishingsreminds us that Munro is our greatest contemporary short story writer.” —USA Today