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A strong new selection in one of our many precious, respected, and thankful authors. In reports that are far more individual than any that she’s created before, her family’s history is pieced by Alice Munro into gloriously imagined misinformation. A child is taken fully to Edinburgh’s Castle Rock, where his father promises him that on a definite day America can be seen by him, and he catches a glimpse of his father’s desire. In tales that follow, whilst the desire becomes a real possibility, two sisters-in-law encounter different types of enthusiasm on the long trip to the Brand New World; an infant is misplaced and magically reappears on a trip from an Illinois homestead for the Canadian boundary.