In the first story a young wife and mother receives release
from the unbearable pain of losing her three children from a
most surprising source. In another, a young woman, in the
aftermath of an unusual and humiliating seduction, reacts in
a clever if less-than-admirable fashion. Other stories
uncover the “deep-holes” in a marriage, the unsuspected
cruelty of children, and how a boy’s disfigured face
provides both the good things in his life and the bad. And
in the long title story, we accompany Sophia Kovalevsky—a
late-nineteenth-century Russian émigré and mathematician—on
a winter journey that takes her from the Riviera, where she
visits her lover, to Paris, Germany, and, Denmark, where she
has a fateful meeting with a local doctor, and finally to
Sweden, where she teaches at the only university in Europe
willing to employ a female mathematician.
With clarity and ease, Alice Munro once again renders
complex, difficult events and emotions into stories that
shed light on the unpredictable ways in which men and women
accommodate and often transcend what happens in their lives.
Too Much Happiness is a compelling, provocative—even
daring—collection.
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