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Alice Munro’s understanding of the people about whom she writes makes them as vivid as our own neighbors

including Americans

never forgives an injury

and globetrotting adventuress to life

It has been named the best science book ever by the Royal Institution of Great Britain

The Binding Diane Wagner Alice Munro’s understanding of theBooks are dangerous things in Collins's alternate universe, a place vaguely reminiscent of 19th century England. It's a world in which people visit book binders to rid themselves of painful or treacherous memories. Once their stories have been told and are bound between the pages of a book, the slate is wiped clean and their memories lose the power to hurt or haunt them. After having suffered some sort of mental collapse and no longer able to keep up