A review by joannamn6
Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro

4.0

Lately I've had a hard time reading short stories--I don't "get" them the way I "get" a novel, perhaps because there's little time to really develop the characters. This short story collection by Alice Munro, however, was captivating enough to get me to finish it in a day and a half. In the story "Child's Play" she layers the past and the present in a way that the horror of what two children have done years earlier isn't fully revealed until the very last lines. A brilliant writer.