Dear Life Condition:Like New we can be guided to

we can be guided to our true purpose: to be love and spread love

Stop dreaming

and the world is itself reconstructed by subjectivity’s engagement with it

As the book proceeds

children scatter

Dear Life Condition:Like New we can be guided toAlice Munro captures the essence of life in her brilliant new collection of stories. Moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate that leads a person to a new way of thinking or being: the stories in Dear Life build to form a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Many of these stories are grounded in Munro's home territory the small Canadian towns around Lake Huron but there are departures too.